Thanks. At least it's useful to know that the message can be ignored as
it comes out EVERY 30 SECONDS (not every 30 min) !!
I found that the suggested rsyslog /etc/rsyslog.d/40-discard.conf did
not work (on Ubuntu 12.04.5 with Trusty kernel and rsyslog version
5.8.6-1ubuntu8.9), so I used the
I have just installed open-vm-tools-lts-trusty version:
2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu6~precise2 in place of an out-of-date version of
VMware Tools and everything seems to be working fine except for these
syslog messages every 30 seconds :
vmsvc[]: [ warning] [guestinfo] Failed to get vmstats.
Can
