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    <h1>Recommended update for open-vm-tools</h1>

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            <th>Announcement ID:</th>
            <td>SUSE-RU-2025:02211-1</td>
        </tr>
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            <th>Release Date:</th>
            <td>2025-07-02T16:13:14Z</td>
        </tr>
        
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            <th>Rating:</th>
            <td>moderate</td>
        </tr>
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            <th>References:</th>
            <td>
                <ul>
                    
                        <li style="display: inline;">
                            <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1245169">bsc#1245169</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 12 SP5 LTSS</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>
                    
                </ul>
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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>Update to open-vm-tools 13.0.0 based on build 24696409. (bsc#1245169): 
  There are no new features in the open-vm-tools 13.0.0 release.  This is
  primarily a maintenance release that addresses a few issues, including:</li>
<li>The vm-support script has been updated to collect the open-vm-tools log
    files from the Linux guest and information from the systemd journal.</li>
<li>Github pull requests has been integrated and issues fixed.  Please see
    the Resolved Issues section of the Release Notes.
  For a more complete list of issues resolved in this release, see the
  Resolved Issues section of the Release Notes.</li>
<li>Add patch:
  Currently the "telinit 6" command is used to reboot a Linux VM
  following Guest OS Customization.  As the classic Linux init system,
  SysVinit, is deprecated in favor of a newer init system, systemd,
  the telinit command may not be available on the base Linux OS.
  This change adds support to Guest OS Customization for the systemd init
  system.  If the modern init system, systemd, is available, then a
  "systemctl reboot" command will be used to trigger reboot.  Otherwise,
  the "telinit 6" command will be used assuming the traditional init
  system, SysVinit, is still available.</li>
<li>Drop patch now contained in 13.0.0:</li>
<li>Ran /usr/lib/obs/service/source_validators/helpers/fix_changelog to fix changes
  file where source validator was failing.</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>
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                SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended Security
                
                    
                        <br/>
                        <code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-LTSS-EXTENDED-SECURITY-2025-2211=1</code>
                    
                    
                
            </li>
        
            <li class="list-group-item">
                SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS
                
                    
                        <br/>
                        <code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-LTSS-2025-2211=1</code>
                    
                    
                
            </li>
        
    </ul>

    <h2>Package List:</h2>
    <ul>
        
            
                <li>
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended Security (x86_64)
                    <ul>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-salt-minion-13.0.0-4.86.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-debugsource-13.0.0-4.86.1</li>
                        
                            <li>libvmtools0-13.0.0-4.86.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-sdmp-debuginfo-13.0.0-4.86.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-desktop-13.0.0-4.86.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-sdmp-13.0.0-4.86.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-debuginfo-13.0.0-4.86.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-13.0.0-4.86.1</li>
                        
                            <li>libvmtools0-debuginfo-13.0.0-4.86.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-13.0.0-4.86.1</li>
                        
                    </ul>
                </li>
            
        
            
                <li>
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS (x86_64)
                    <ul>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-salt-minion-13.0.0-4.86.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-debugsource-13.0.0-4.86.1</li>
                        
                            <li>libvmtools0-13.0.0-4.86.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-sdmp-debuginfo-13.0.0-4.86.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-desktop-13.0.0-4.86.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-sdmp-13.0.0-4.86.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-debuginfo-13.0.0-4.86.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-13.0.0-4.86.1</li>
                        
                            <li>libvmtools0-debuginfo-13.0.0-4.86.1</li>
                        
                            <li>open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-13.0.0-4.86.1</li>
                        
                    </ul>
                </li>
            
        
    </ul>

    
        <h2>References:</h2>
        <ul>
            
                
                    <li>
                        <a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1245169">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1245169</a>
                    </li>
                
            
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