Update Celerra’s Simulator VMware Tools
I have updated my VMware Workstation on my laptop. Next task is to update VMware Tools inside all of my virtual machines, simple task for almost the common mortals, right?
But, can someone tell me why, there are always one “black sheep”?! This time was my Celerra Simulator VM…
Everything went fine till the moment that I run the command “rmmod vmxnet”, here I got a loop error saying something like this:
unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0 to become free
This is because the EMC Celerra services are up and running for sure.
After some reboots and try to stop a bunch of services I always ended up in the same error. What I did next? Well if I cannot stop all the services, how about to boot the VM in a mode that those service haven’t started yet?!
The steps were as root user:
Edit the file /etc/inittab. Where is id:3:initdefault: replace by id:1:initdefault and reboot, this way Linux boots in single user mode. No EMC services running 
Next I installed VMware Tools, and et voilá now everything went fine with no errors!!
Last step is revert back the file /etc/inittab to is default, where is id:1:initdefault: replace by id:3:initdefault, and reboot.
When the VM restarts we’ll have VMware Tools updated and everything up and running.
