[sles-beta] Beta 5 and VMware-tools

[Uwe Drechsel]

On Tue, Apr 22, Joe Doupnik wrote:

>     Returning to this particular VMware-tools item today.
>     Two points.
>     1. The ESXi v5.5 provided VMware tools will not install. The
> selected o/s type was other 64-bit.
>     2. The third party open-vm-tools item is installed but not
> activated. Much searching high and low for what to do. Finally I
> found rcvmtoolsd hidden away. That did no good. Resort to YaST,
> Services, find the item, ENABLE it (why, for gosh sakes, cannot the
> rc script accept enable/disable as command verbs?), start it. Now
> ESXi is happier.

It intentionally was not enabled per default in Beta 5. Now after an
audit by the sec team, we have green light to enable it in Beta 6.

Thanks
Uwe

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