How to Restart VMware Tools on CentOS

If VMware Tools stops responding on a CentOS guest (for example, the vSphere Client shows it as not running), you can restart it from the command line without rebooting the VM. Run this as root:

/etc/vmware-tools/services.sh restart

If VMware Tools doesn’t start on its own after a reboot, see fixing VMware Tools not starting after reboot on CentOS.