Exit Codes for the VMware Tools Configuration Utility

You can use exit codes to integrate the VMware Tools configuration utility commands with a scripting tool.

Table 1. Exit Codes

Code Number	Applicable Command	Description
0	All commands	The command was successful.
1	All commands	A error occurred. For the shrink command, 1 indicates that although shrinking is enabled, the shrink command cannot be carried out.
64	All commands	The command-line argument is not valid.
66	script	The file name does not exist.
69	device and stat	For the device command, 69 indicates that the specified device does not exist. Use the list subcommand to display valid names of devices. For the stat command, 69 indicates that the program could not communicate with the host (EX_UNAVAILABLE).
75	stat	The host does not support the query, perhaps because the host is not an ESX/ESXi host (EX_TEMPFAIL).
77	All commands	Permission error occurred