<div class="container">
    <h1>Recommended update for open-vm-tools</h1>

    <table class="table table-striped table-bordered">
        <tbody>
        <tr>
            <th>Announcement ID:</th>
            <td>SUSE-RU-2024:1614-1</td>
        </tr>
        
        <tr>
            <th>Rating:</th>
            <td>important</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <th>References:</th>
            <td>
                <ul>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1054800">bsc#1054800</a>
                        </li>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1062837">bsc#1062837</a>
                        </li>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1121964">bsc#1121964</a>
                        </li>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1133623">bsc#1133623</a>
                        </li>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1141969">bsc#1141969</a>
                        </li>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1143452">bsc#1143452</a>
                        </li>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1171003">bsc#1171003</a>
                        </li>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1171764">bsc#1171764</a>
                        </li>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1172693">bsc#1172693</a>
                        </li>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1196803">bsc#1196803</a>
                        </li>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1196804">bsc#1196804</a>
                        </li>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1205962">bsc#1205962</a>
                        </li>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1217478">bsc#1217478</a>
                        </li>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1222089">bsc#1222089</a>
                        </li>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474076">bsc#474076</a>
                        </li>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481137">bsc#481137</a>
                        </li>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=944615">bsc#944615</a>
                        </li>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952645">bsc#952645</a>
                        </li>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=994598">bsc#994598</a>
                        </li>
                    
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://jira.suse.com/browse/ECO-2164">jsc#ECO-2164</a>
                        </li>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://jira.suse.com/browse/SLE-24094">jsc#SLE-24094</a>
                        </li>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://jira.suse.com/browse/SLE-24095">jsc#SLE-24095</a>
                        </li>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://jira.suse.com/browse/SLE-24096">jsc#SLE-24096</a>
                        </li>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://jira.suse.com/browse/SLE-24097">jsc#SLE-24097</a>
                        </li>
                    
                </ul>
            </td>
        </tr>
        
        <tr>
            <th>Affected Products:</th>
            <td>
                <ul class="list-group">
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5</li>
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5</li>
                    
                        <li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5</li>
                    
                </ul>
            </td>
        </tr>
        </tbody>
    </table>

    <p>An update that contains five features and has 19 fixes can now be installed.</p>

    


    
        <h2>Description:</h2>
    
    <p>This update for open-vm-tools fixes the following issues:</p>
<ul>
<li>Remove protobuf v22 and below as dependency from spec file (bsc#1217478)</li>
<li>Use for updating open-vm-tools to version 12.4.0 (bsc#1222089) </li>
<li>Use %patch -P N instead of deprecated %patchN</li>
<li>Own %{_modulesloaddir}: used to be present via udev-mini kmod suse-module-tools dependency before</li>
<li>limit to protobuf less than v22 for now until build failures have been fixed.
  pam-vmtoolsd patch as instructed by vmware (bsc#1171003)
  This should fix both (bsc#1171003) and (bsc#1172693)</li>
<li>Update vmtoolsd.service to support cloud-init customization by default (bsc#994598)</li>
<li>Enable vgauth for openSUSE Leap 42.1 (bsc#952645)</li>
<li>Extensive rewrite of the spec file</li>
<li>rename vmware-KMP to vmware-guest-KMP for easier identification
  the autostart-wrapper takes this into account and tries for</li>
</ul>



    

    <h2>Patch Instructions:</h2>
    <p>
        To install this SUSE  update use the SUSE recommended
        installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".<br/>

        Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
    </p>
    <ul class="list-group">
        
            <li class="list-group-item">
                SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5
                
                    
                        <br/>
                        <code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2024-1614=1</code>
                    
                    
                
            </li>
        
            <li class="list-group-item">
                SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5
                
                    
                        <br/>
                        <code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2024-1614=1</code>
                    
                    
                
            </li>
        
            <li class="list-group-item">
                SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5
                
                    
                        <br/>
                        <code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2024-1614=1</code>
                    
                    
                
            </li>
        
    </ul>

    <h2>Package List:</h2>
    <ul>
        
            
                <li>
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 (x86_64)
                    <ul>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-debuginfo-12.4.0-4.71.14</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-desktop-12.4.0-4.71.14</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-12.4.0-4.71.14</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-debugsource-12.4.0-4.71.14</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-sdmp-debuginfo-12.4.0-4.71.14</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-salt-minion-12.4.0-4.71.14</li>
                        
                            <li>libvmtools0-12.4.0-4.71.14</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-sdmp-12.4.0-4.71.14</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-12.4.0-4.71.14</li>
                        
                            <li>libvmtools0-debuginfo-12.4.0-4.71.14</li>
                        
                    </ul>
                </li>
            
        
            
                <li>
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 (x86_64)
                    <ul>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-debuginfo-12.4.0-4.71.14</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-desktop-12.4.0-4.71.14</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-12.4.0-4.71.14</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-debugsource-12.4.0-4.71.14</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-sdmp-debuginfo-12.4.0-4.71.14</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-salt-minion-12.4.0-4.71.14</li>
                        
                            <li>libvmtools0-12.4.0-4.71.14</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-sdmp-12.4.0-4.71.14</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-12.4.0-4.71.14</li>
                        
                            <li>libvmtools0-debuginfo-12.4.0-4.71.14</li>
                        
                    </ul>
                </li>
            
        
            
                <li>
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 (x86_64)
                    <ul>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-debuginfo-12.4.0-4.71.14</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-desktop-12.4.0-4.71.14</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-12.4.0-4.71.14</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-debugsource-12.4.0-4.71.14</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-sdmp-debuginfo-12.4.0-4.71.14</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-salt-minion-12.4.0-4.71.14</li>
                        
                            <li>libvmtools0-12.4.0-4.71.14</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-sdmp-12.4.0-4.71.14</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-12.4.0-4.71.14</li>
                        
                            <li>libvmtools0-debuginfo-12.4.0-4.71.14</li>
                        
                    </ul>
                </li>
            
        
    </ul>

    
        <h2>References:</h2>
        <ul>
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1054800">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1054800</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1062837">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1062837</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1121964">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1121964</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1133623">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1133623</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1141969">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1141969</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1143452">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1143452</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1171003">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1171003</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1171764">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1171764</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1172693">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1172693</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1196803">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1196803</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1196804">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1196804</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1205962">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1205962</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1217478">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1217478</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1222089">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1222089</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474076">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474076</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481137">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481137</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=944615">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=944615</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952645">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952645</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=994598">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=994598</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://jira.suse.com/browse/ECO-2164">https://jira.suse.com/browse/ECO-2164</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://jira.suse.com/browse/SLE-24094">https://jira.suse.com/browse/SLE-24094</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://jira.suse.com/browse/SLE-24095">https://jira.suse.com/browse/SLE-24095</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://jira.suse.com/browse/SLE-24096">https://jira.suse.com/browse/SLE-24096</a>
                    </li>
                
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://jira.suse.com/browse/SLE-24097">https://jira.suse.com/browse/SLE-24097</a>
                    </li>
                
            
        </ul>
    
</div>