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Not able to run open-vm-tools  #3394

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@arryo

So I have my open-vm-tools installed, but not able to run it:
root@omnios:~# pkg info system/virtualization/open-vm-tools
Name: system/virtualization/open-vm-tools
Summary: Open Virtual Machine Tools
Description: The Open Virtual Machine Tools project aims to provide a
suite of open source virtualisation utilities and drivers to
improve the functionality and user experience of
virtualisation. The project currently runs in guest operating
systems under the VMware hypervisor.
Category: System/Virtualization
State: Installed (Manually installed)
Publisher: omnios
Version: 12.3.0
Branch: 151048.0
Packaging Date: Sat Nov 4 14:17:33 2023
Last Install Time: Sun Nov 12 23:35:26 2023
Size: 2.53 MB
FMRI: pkg://omnios/system/virtualization/open-vm-tools@12.3.0-15104 8.0:20231104T141733Z

root@omnios:# uname -a
SunOS omnios 5.11 omnios-r151048-24333ee74c i86pc i386 i86pc illumos
root@omnios:
# svcadm enable open-vm-tools
root@omnios:~# svcs -x open-vm-tools
svc:/system/virtualization/open-vm-tools:default (Open Virtual Machine Tools)
State: offline since Sun Nov 12 17:50:30 2023
Reason: Unknown.
See: http://illumos.org/msg/SMF-8000-AR
Impact: This service is not running.

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