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I have an Ubuntu 9.10 Server running as guest from VMware Fusion. How can I check if it's running VMware tools from the command line?

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This works in SLES: 

ps ax|grep vmware
8885 ?        Ss     8:05 /usr/lib/vmware-tools/sbin64/vmware-guestd --background /var/run/vmware-guestd.pid

/etc/init.d/vmware-tools status
vmware-guestd is running
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Check that the vmware-guestd is running

ps -ef | grep vmware-guestd
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