[sles-beta] SLES12 Beta7 x86_64 vmtoolsd now activated automatically?

[Kai Dupke]

Hi Urs,

this is per the request of VMware, to select and install the
open-vm-tools when a VMware hypervisor is identified. This also includes
the auto-activation of the tools, when installed.

I expect to move the support status from external supported to supported
soon. Hopefully this will ease potential concerns.

In case you don't want the tools installed, please deselect them.

Regarding the message in the virtual center, where the tools are
displayed as 3rd party (even this is maintained by VMware), all I can
tell you is that VMware is aware of this and I hope a solution will be
available for this without waiting too long.

greetings kai




On 05/26/2014 01:51 PM, urs.frey at post.ch wrote:
> Hi
> 
> When installing SLES12 x86_64 Beta7 on VMware ESX I can see that the vmtoolsd gets activated automatically
> 
> I state that this is unwanted, as the support state of the SLES12 included open-vm-tools is not clear with VMware
> Within the changelog Beta6-> Beta7 there is nothing mentioned.
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> o Updated open-vm-tools (security/bugfix/feature)       [x86_64]
> 
> - Modify vmware-user-autostart-wrapper to unconditionally start
>   vmware-user-suid-wrapper, and no longer delay for vmblock-fuse
>   if under systemd. (bnc#876074)
> - added forgotten %pre snippet for service addition, this made
>   systemd service not auto-start. bnc#870737
> - Set ExclusiveArch to x86_64 only (for SLE-12).
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> With SLES12 I need to have a platform working on VMware ESX in a supported state.
> Today with open-vm-tools I still have the "unsupported, third party state" in the v-sphere console
> 
> This is not feasible for production environment
> 
> If I need to install the professional VMwareTools coming with ESX there should be an easy way to remove, or to lock the installation of open-vm-tools
> No automatic activation of open-vm-tools please.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Urs Frey
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