Recommended update for open-vm-tools

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2018:0411-1
Rating: low
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Affected Products:
  • SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4

An update that has three fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update of open-vm-tools to version 10.2.0 provides the following fixes and improvements:

  • Build deploypackage plugin for SLES11 making the VMware provided open-vm-tools-deploypkg obsolete. (bsc#1062837)
  • Fix a memory leak in vmtoolsd.
  • Add SUSE Server for SAP Applications to hostinfoPosix.c.
  • Fix a crash when stopping vmtoolsd.
  • Add new GOS definitions (e.g. SLES 15) for virtual hardware version 14.
  • Add /usr/bin/vmware-user symlink to vmware-user-suid-wrapper.
  • Provide vmware-vgauth-smoketest for VGAUthservice validation.
  • Modify udev rules to only adjust timeout on disk devices. (bsc#1063320)
  • Enable building with ssl capabilities for SLES11.
  • Tools Hgfs Plugin: refresh Hgfs drives on client start
  • Report version data via guestinfo vars
  • Add entries for MacOS 10.13 (High Sierra) to guest_os_tables.h.

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE 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 Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
    zypper in -t patch slessp4-open-vm-tools-13460=1
  • SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP4
    zypper in -t patch slessp4-open-vm-tools-13460=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 (x86_64 i586)
    • open-vm-tools-desktop-10.2.0-8.6.1
    • open-vm-tools-10.2.0-8.6.1
    • libvmtools0-10.2.0-8.6.1
  • SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP4 (x86_64)
    • open-vm-tools-desktop-10.2.0-8.6.1
    • open-vm-tools-10.2.0-8.6.1
    • libvmtools0-10.2.0-8.6.1

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