I was having the same issue. I changed lines 319-322 in vmwaretools\m…

[esarakaitis]

Services we're not starting on RHEL 6.8

Update …anifests\init.pp from:

        start      => "/sbin/start ${service_name_real}",
        stop       => "/sbin/stop ${service_name_real}",
        status     => "/sbin/status ${service_name_real} | grep -q 'start/'",
        restart    => "/sbin/restart ${service_name_real}",

to:

        start      => "service ${service_name_real} start",
        stop       => "service ${service_name_real} stop",
        status     => "service ${service_name_real} status",
        restart    => "service ${service_name_real} restart",

It now works properly.

[divad]

This is not the correct fix, it looks like the fix because the module is currently installing old and out of date VMware Tools. :(

[razorsedge]

@esarakaitis Thank you for your submission. As per the CONTRIBUTING.md file, could you please resubmit from the develop branch?

[vox-pupuli-tasks]

Dear @esarakaitis, thanks for the PR!

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[TheMeier]

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