Recommended update for open-vm-tools
| Announcement ID: | SUSE-RU-2016:1408-1 |
| Rating: | low |
| References: | #921618 #943236 #944615 #974504 |
| Affected Products: |
An update that has four recommended fixes can now be installed.
Description:
This update provides open-vm-tools 10.0.5, which brings several fixes and
enhancements:
- Fuse-based hgfs client, a user space way to share folder between host
and guest without any kernel modification
- Quiesced snapshots enhancements for Linux guests running IO workload
- Shared Folders
- ESXi Serviceability
- GuestInfo Enhancements
- Internationalization, with support for English, French, German, Spanish,
Italian, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese
- Compatibility with all supported versions of VMware vSphere, VMware
Workstation 12.0 and VMware Fusion 8.0
Patch Instructions:
To install this SUSE Recommended Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12:
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2016-844=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12:
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-2016-844=1
To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".
Package List:
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 (x86_64):
- libvmtools0-10.0.5-2.1.1
- libvmtools0-debuginfo-10.0.5-2.1.1
- open-vm-tools-10.0.5-2.1.1
- open-vm-tools-debuginfo-10.0.5-2.1.1
- open-vm-tools-debugsource-10.0.5-2.1.1
- open-vm-tools-desktop-10.0.5-2.1.1
- open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-10.0.5-2.1.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 (x86_64):
- libvmtools0-10.0.5-2.1.1
- libvmtools0-debuginfo-10.0.5-2.1.1
- open-vm-tools-10.0.5-2.1.1
- open-vm-tools-debuginfo-10.0.5-2.1.1
- open-vm-tools-debugsource-10.0.5-2.1.1
- open-vm-tools-desktop-10.0.5-2.1.1
- open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-10.0.5-2.1.1