Starting VMware Tools services in the virtual machine:
Switching to guest configuration: done
VMware Automatic Kmods: done
/etc/init.d/vmware-tools: 1122: local: ': bad variable name
/etc/init.d/vmware-tools: 1122: local: ': bad variable name
Blocking file system: failed
VMware User Agent: done
/etc/init.d/vmware-tools: 1219: local: ': bad variable name
Guest operating system daemon: done
Unable to start services for VMware Tools
Execution aborted.
Windows 8 Host, latest vmware workstation build.
Still fails to install VMWare Tools in latest Linux Kernel guest. The output looks to be the same scripting error.