Recommended update for open-vm-tools

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2024:1614-1
Rating: important
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Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5

An update that contains five features and has 19 fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for open-vm-tools fixes the following issues:

  • Remove protobuf v22 and below as dependency from spec file (bsc#1217478)
  • Use for updating open-vm-tools to version 12.4.0 (bsc#1222089)
  • Use %patch -P N instead of deprecated %patchN
  • Own %{_modulesloaddir}: used to be present via udev-mini kmod suse-module-tools dependency before
  • limit to protobuf less than v22 for now until build failures have been fixed. pam-vmtoolsd patch as instructed by vmware (bsc#1171003) This should fix both (bsc#1171003) and (bsc#1172693)
  • Update vmtoolsd.service to support cloud-init customization by default (bsc#994598)
  • Enable vgauth for openSUSE Leap 42.1 (bsc#952645)
  • Extensive rewrite of the spec file
  • rename vmware-KMP to vmware-guest-KMP for easier identification the autostart-wrapper takes this into account and tries for

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 for SAP Applications 12 SP5
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2024-1614=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2024-1614=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2024-1614=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 (x86_64)
    • open-vm-tools-12.4.0-4.71.14
    • open-vm-tools-salt-minion-12.4.0-4.71.14
    • open-vm-tools-sdmp-12.4.0-4.71.14
    • open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-12.4.0-4.71.14
    • open-vm-tools-sdmp-debuginfo-12.4.0-4.71.14
    • libvmtools0-12.4.0-4.71.14
    • libvmtools0-debuginfo-12.4.0-4.71.14
    • open-vm-tools-debuginfo-12.4.0-4.71.14
    • open-vm-tools-desktop-12.4.0-4.71.14
    • open-vm-tools-debugsource-12.4.0-4.71.14
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 (x86_64)
    • open-vm-tools-12.4.0-4.71.14
    • open-vm-tools-salt-minion-12.4.0-4.71.14
    • open-vm-tools-sdmp-12.4.0-4.71.14
    • open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-12.4.0-4.71.14
    • open-vm-tools-sdmp-debuginfo-12.4.0-4.71.14
    • libvmtools0-12.4.0-4.71.14
    • libvmtools0-debuginfo-12.4.0-4.71.14
    • open-vm-tools-debuginfo-12.4.0-4.71.14
    • open-vm-tools-desktop-12.4.0-4.71.14
    • open-vm-tools-debugsource-12.4.0-4.71.14
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 (x86_64)
    • open-vm-tools-12.4.0-4.71.14
    • open-vm-tools-salt-minion-12.4.0-4.71.14
    • open-vm-tools-sdmp-12.4.0-4.71.14
    • open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-12.4.0-4.71.14
    • open-vm-tools-sdmp-debuginfo-12.4.0-4.71.14
    • libvmtools0-12.4.0-4.71.14
    • libvmtools0-debuginfo-12.4.0-4.71.14
    • open-vm-tools-debuginfo-12.4.0-4.71.14
    • open-vm-tools-desktop-12.4.0-4.71.14
    • open-vm-tools-debugsource-12.4.0-4.71.14

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