Troubles installing arch VMware

I'm following this guide:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/In … _in_VMware
And I've installed open-vm-tools. Now when I type /etc/rc.d/open-vm-tools start I get an error.
:: Starting Open Virtual Machine Tools [BUSY]
FATAL: Module vmblock not found. [FAIL]
Anybody know why?

v43, I would like to note that to install the official package from vmware, you'll need to go to settings > install vmware tools > then in the linux shell sudo mkdir /mnt/cd ; sudo mount /dev/sr0 /mnt/cd and just cd /mnt/cd ; cp * ~ ; cd ~ ; gunzip *gz ; tar -xf *tar ; cd vmware* ; ./*.pl
I would like to note that I already tried to do this, but when I went to specify the location of the kernel headers, it couldn't find it. I tried to do pacman -S kernel-header and linux headers and all kinds of other stuff, but it doesn't work. I'm pretty sure that I had the right thing installed, in /lib/modules/3.2.../build/include, but when I typed that in the vmware tools config where it was asking for the location of the headers it said it was wrong. IDK.
Also on your question on how you can get more details on the cause of the failure, you can do sudo strace /etc/rc.d/open-vm-tools. I should also note that open-vm-tools is not a binary. it's a shell script. you can do vi /etc/rc.d/open-vm if you sequentially execute the script, you'll find that it just fails neatly in the beginning of it. I would note that the two scripts it tries to execute in the beginning /etc/rc.d/functions and /etc/rc.d/conf don't exist. Maybe that has something to do with it, but I know for certain that the following test is causing the failure:
modprobe vmblock -> returns 127 on my machine
if [ $? -gt 0 ]; then
stat_fail
that's it right there: modprobe is returning some information about what's currently in the system and the test is saying that it failed because of what modprobe couldn't do. This I'm saying speculatively. I don't know what the error code 127 represents. I don't have copy paste for my vm because of this, so someone should paste the /etc/rc.d/open-vm-tools script here after my post.

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