[Unit] Description=Service for virtual machines hosted on VMware Documentation=https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools ConditionVirtualization=vmware Requires=vgauthd.service After=vgauthd.service DefaultDependencies=no Before=cloud-init-local.service StartLimitIntervalSec=30 StartLimitBurst=3 [Service] ExecStart=/usr/bin/vmtoolsd TimeoutStopSec=5 Restart=on-failure [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target Also=vgauthd.service