Common Exit Codes
You can use exit
codes to integrate the VMware Tools configuration utility commands with a
scripting tool.
The following table lists the common error codes
defined in
toolbox-cmd
. Each subcommand may return other Windows
or Linux error 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 (EX_USAGE). |
69 | upgrade timesync config device stat shrink | 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).
|
70 | globalconf gueststore | There is an internal software error (EX_SOFTWARE). |
71 | Not used | There is a system error (EX_OSERR). |
72 | device shrink script | A critical OS file is missing (EX_OSFILE). |
75
| upgrade stat shrink script config globalconf logging device | The host does not support the query, perhaps
because the host is not an ESX/ESXi host (EX_TEMPFAIL).
|
77
| script disk upgrade globalconf logging info config | Permission error occurred (EX_NOPERM). |
130 | Shrink | SIGNT received (VM_EX_INTERRUPT). |