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When you are upgrading VMware Tools for a virtual machine running on VMware ESXi 5.5 or later, you experience these symptoms: VMware Tools Automatic Upgrade fails with the error: vix error code = 21009 This file is present on the virtual machine: Microsoft Windows C:\Windows\\Temp\\vmware-SYSTEM\\VMwareToolsUpgrader.exe Red Hat Enterprise Linux /tmp/vmware-root In the vmware.log file, you see entries similar to: 2015-07-02T19:19:06.935Z| vcpu-0| I120: TOOLS INSTALL Error copying upgrader binary /usr/lib/vmware/isoimages/windows.iso::VMwareToolsUpgrader.exe (=> C:\Windows\TEMP\vmware-SYSTEM\VMwareToolsUpgrader.exe) into guest, HgfsStatus = 8. 2015-07-02T19:19:06.935Z| vcpu-0| I120: TOOLS INSTALL renaming old C:\Windows\TEMP\vmware-SYSTEM\VMwareToolsUpgrader.exe before retrying autoupgrade 2015-07-02T19:19:06.935Z| vcpu-0| I120: TOOLS INSTALL Having tried autoupgrade 5 times. Giving up Note: The preceding log excerpts are only examples. Date, time, and environmental variables may vary depending on your environment.
This issue occurs due to a stale upgrade file from a previous VMware Tools upgrade.
This issue is resolved in: VMware ESXi 6.0 Update 1, available at VMware Downloads. For more information see the VMware ESXi 6.0 Update 1 Release Notes.VMware ESXi 5.5 Update 3b, available at VMware Downloads. For more information see the VMware ESXi 5.5 Update 3b Release Notes.
To work around this issue: Reboot the VMManually upgrade VMware Tools within the Guest OS Microsoft Windows Log in to the virtual machine as an administrative user.Open an elevated command prompt.Run this command: attrib -R C:\Windows\Temp\vmware-SYSTEM\VMwareToolsUpgrader.exe Red Hat Enterprise Linux Log in to the virtual machine as an administrative user.Using the terminal or graphical user interface, remove the file: /tmp/vmware-root Note: For multiple virtual machines, PowerCLI command Invoke-VMScript can be utilized to automate the workarounds. For more information, see the VMware vSphere Power CLI Cmdlets Reference guide.
VMware Tools の自動アップグレードが次のエラーで失敗する： vix エラー コード = 21009 (vix error code = 21009)VMware Tools 自动升级失败并显示错误：vix 错误代码 = 21009 (vix error code = 21009)
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