Recommended update for open-vm-tools

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2019:0696-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • SUSE CaaS Platform 3.0
  • SUSE Container as a Service Platform 1.0
  • SUSE Container as a Service Platform 2.0
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3

An update that has four fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update fixes the following issues:

  • Link VGAuthService to libxmlsec1 rather than libxml-security-c in SLE products where available (bsc#1122435)
  • Improves handling of certain quiesced snapshot failures (bsc#1124397)
  • Update vmtoolsd.service to support cloud-init customization by default by adding "DefaultDependencies=no" and "Before=cloud-init-local.service" to the [Unit] section of vmtoolsd.service (bsc#1121964)
  • Update open-vm-tools to 10.3.5 (bsc#1115118)
  • Bugfix: open-vm-tools has logged warnings, when taking a snapshot of a Linux guest on a vSphere host
  • Bugfix: open-vm-tools service crashed on Linux systems which are not running on a VMware platform

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 Desktop 12 SP3
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP3-2019-696=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2019-696=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2019-696=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP3
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2019-696=1
  • SUSE CaaS Platform 3.0
    To install this update, use the SUSE CaaS Platform 'skuba' tool. It will inform you if it detects new updates and let you then trigger updating of the complete cluster in a controlled way.
  • SUSE Container as a Service Platform 2.0
    To install this update, use the SUSE CaaS Platform 'skuba' tool. It will inform you if it detects new updates and let you then trigger updating of the complete cluster in a controlled way.
  • SUSE Container as a Service Platform 1.0
    To install this update, use the SUSE CaaS Platform 'skuba' tool. It will inform you if it detects new updates and let you then trigger updating of the complete cluster in a controlled way.

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3 (x86_64)
    • open-vm-tools-debuginfo-10.3.5-3.22.1
    • open-vm-tools-debugsource-10.3.5-3.22.1
    • libvmtools0-10.3.5-3.22.1
    • open-vm-tools-10.3.5-3.22.1
    • open-vm-tools-desktop-10.3.5-3.22.1
    • open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-10.3.5-3.22.1
    • libvmtools0-debuginfo-10.3.5-3.22.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 (x86_64)
    • open-vm-tools-debuginfo-10.3.5-3.22.1
    • libvmtools0-10.3.5-3.22.1
    • open-vm-tools-debugsource-10.3.5-3.22.1
    • open-vm-tools-10.3.5-3.22.1
    • open-vm-tools-desktop-10.3.5-3.22.1
    • open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-10.3.5-3.22.1
    • libvmtools0-debuginfo-10.3.5-3.22.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 (x86_64)
    • open-vm-tools-debuginfo-10.3.5-3.22.1
    • libvmtools0-10.3.5-3.22.1
    • open-vm-tools-debugsource-10.3.5-3.22.1
    • open-vm-tools-10.3.5-3.22.1
    • open-vm-tools-desktop-10.3.5-3.22.1
    • open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-10.3.5-3.22.1
    • libvmtools0-debuginfo-10.3.5-3.22.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP3 (x86_64)
    • open-vm-tools-debuginfo-10.3.5-3.22.1
    • libvmtools0-10.3.5-3.22.1
    • open-vm-tools-debugsource-10.3.5-3.22.1
    • open-vm-tools-10.3.5-3.22.1
    • open-vm-tools-desktop-10.3.5-3.22.1
    • open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-10.3.5-3.22.1
    • libvmtools0-debuginfo-10.3.5-3.22.1
  • SUSE CaaS Platform 3.0 (x86_64)
    • open-vm-tools-debuginfo-10.3.5-3.22.1
    • libvmtools0-10.3.5-3.22.1
    • open-vm-tools-debugsource-10.3.5-3.22.1
    • open-vm-tools-10.3.5-3.22.1
    • libvmtools0-debuginfo-10.3.5-3.22.1
  • SUSE Container as a Service Platform 2.0 (x86_64)
    • open-vm-tools-debuginfo-10.3.5-3.22.1
    • libvmtools0-10.3.5-3.22.1
    • open-vm-tools-debugsource-10.3.5-3.22.1
    • open-vm-tools-10.3.5-3.22.1
    • libvmtools0-debuginfo-10.3.5-3.22.1
  • SUSE Container as a Service Platform 1.0 (x86_64)
    • open-vm-tools-debuginfo-10.3.5-3.22.1
    • libvmtools0-10.3.5-3.22.1
    • open-vm-tools-debugsource-10.3.5-3.22.1
    • open-vm-tools-10.3.5-3.22.1
    • libvmtools0-debuginfo-10.3.5-3.22.1

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