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<h1>Recommended update for open-vm-tools</h1>
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<th>Announcement ID:</th>
<td>SUSE-RU-2025:1097-1</td>
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<th>Release Date:</th>
<td>2025-04-02T08:05:29Z</td>
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<th>Rating:</th>
<td>important</td>
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<th>References:</th>
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<ul>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1237180">bsc#1237180</a>
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</ul>
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<th>Affected Products:</th>
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<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended Security</li>
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5</li>
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<p>An update that has one fix can now be installed.</p>
<h2>Description:</h2>
<p>This update for open-vm-tools fixes the following issues:</p>
<ul>
<li>Ensure vmtoolsd.service and vgauthd.service
are set to enabled by default. Do this by removing vmblock-fuse.service
from the %pre section in the spec file. vmblock-fuse.service still
remains in the %pre desktop section (bsc#1237180).</li>
<li>remove unused pcre build dependency</li>
<li>Revert previous change. The proposed solutions was non-standard.</li>
<li>Ensure vmtoolsd.service, vgauthd.service, and
vmblock-fuse.service are set to enabled by default (bsc#1237180).</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:
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended Security
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<code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-LTSS-EXTENDED-SECURITY-2025-1097=1</code>
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</ul>
<h2>Package List:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended Security (x86_64)
<ul>
<li>open-vm-tools-debugsource-12.5.0-4.80.1</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-12.5.0-4.80.1</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-12.5.0-4.80.1</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-salt-minion-12.5.0-4.80.1</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-sdmp-12.5.0-4.80.1</li>
<li>libvmtools0-debuginfo-12.5.0-4.80.1</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-debuginfo-12.5.0-4.80.1</li>
<li>libvmtools0-12.5.0-4.80.1</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-sdmp-debuginfo-12.5.0-4.80.1</li>
<li>open-vm-tools-desktop-12.5.0-4.80.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>References:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1237180">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1237180</a>
</li>
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