SUSE-RU-2021:2571-1: moderate: Recommended update for open-vm-tools
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SUSE Recommended Update: Recommended update for open-vm-tools
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Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2021:2571-1
Rating: moderate
References: #1029961 #1185103 #1185175 #1187567
Affected Products:
SUSE MicroOS 5.0
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15-SP2
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP2
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An update that has four recommended fixes can now be
installed.
Description:
This update for open-vm-tools fixes the following issues:
Update to 11.3.0 (bsc#1187567)
- Reduce or eliminate Linux dependency on the 'net-tools' package.
- The 'ifconfig' and 'netstat' commands are deprecated in more recent
releases of Linux. Update the Linux 'vm-support' script to use the
'ip' and 'ss' commands when available. If the new commands are missing
a fallback will be used. In Particular, 'ip' has a fallback on
'ifconfig', 'ip route' will fallback on 'route' and 'ss' will fallback
on 'netstat'.
- Configuring OVT with the '--without-pam' option will implicitly disable
'vgauth'.
- When no 'vgauth' option is given alongside '--without-pam', a warning
is displayed with a message 'Building without PAM; vgauth will be
disabled.'.
- When '--disable-vgauth' is supplied alongside '--without-pam', no
warning or error message is displayed.
- When '--enable-vgauth' is supplied alongside '--without-pam', an error
will be shown and the configure stage will be aborted with an error
message 'Cannot enable vgauth without PAM. Please configure without
--without-pam or without --enable-vgauth.'
- Fix issues using GCC 11 with gtk >= 3.20 and glib >=2.66.3
- Fix more GCC 11 failures. (bsc#1185103)
- Update the 'FreeBSD' specific sections of 'open-vm-tools' to adjust what
necessary for 'ARM64'.
- New command line tool 'vmwgfxctrl' introduced in 'open-vm-tools'.
- A user can now control various aspects of the 'vmwgfx' Linux kernel
module. Currently it can both display and set the current topology of
the 'vmwgfx' kernel driver. It is useful when trying to configure
custom resolutions on recent Linux distributions, including
multi-monitor setups.
- New command line tool 'vmware-alias-import' added to 'open-vm-tools'
that can be used to import 'vgauth' config data and apply it to the
running 'vgauth' service.
- Enhancements to support or utilize various vSphere features.
- In 'vmtoolsd.service' move the deprecated path '/var/run' to '/run' for
it's 'PID' file. (bsc#1185175)
- Finalize the 'UsrMerge'. (bsc#1029961)
Patch Instructions:
To install this SUSE Recommended Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods
like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
- SUSE MicroOS 5.0:
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SUSE-MicroOS-5.0-2021-2571=1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15-SP2:
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Desktop-Applications-15-SP2-2021-2571=1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP2:
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP2-2021-2571=1
Package List:
- SUSE MicroOS 5.0 (x86_64):
libvmtools0-11.3.0-5.16.4.1
libvmtools0-debuginfo-11.3.0-5.16.4.1
open-vm-tools-11.3.0-5.16.4.1
open-vm-tools-debuginfo-11.3.0-5.16.4.1
open-vm-tools-debugsource-11.3.0-5.16.4.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15-SP2 (x86_64):
open-vm-tools-debuginfo-11.3.0-5.16.4.1
open-vm-tools-debugsource-11.3.0-5.16.4.1
open-vm-tools-desktop-11.3.0-5.16.4.1
open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-11.3.0-5.16.4.1
open-vm-tools-sdmp-11.3.0-5.16.4.1
open-vm-tools-sdmp-debuginfo-11.3.0-5.16.4.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP2 (x86_64):
libvmtools-devel-11.3.0-5.16.4.1
libvmtools0-11.3.0-5.16.4.1
libvmtools0-debuginfo-11.3.0-5.16.4.1
open-vm-tools-11.3.0-5.16.4.1
open-vm-tools-debuginfo-11.3.0-5.16.4.1
open-vm-tools-debugsource-11.3.0-5.16.4.1
open-vm-tools-sdmp-11.3.0-5.16.4.1
open-vm-tools-sdmp-debuginfo-11.3.0-5.16.4.1
References:
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1029961
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1185103
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1185175
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1187567
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