How can I check if VMware tools is running on my guest Ubuntu Server? [closed]

I have an Ubuntu 9.10 Server running as guest from VMware Fusion. How can I check if it's running VMware tools from the command line?

Solution 1:

This works in SLES:

ps ax|grep vmware
8885 ?        Ss     8:05 /usr/lib/vmware-tools/sbin64/vmware-guestd --background /var/run/vmware-guestd.pid

/etc/init.d/vmware-tools status
vmware-guestd is running

You can also check if the vm kernel modules are running

lsmod
...
vmw_pvscsi             22359  0 
vmxnet3                44475  0 
vmwgfx                114733  3
vm...

Solution 2:

Tested on Ubuntu 12.xx

$ sudo service vmware-tools status

It works on my machines (from 12.04 to 14.04)