Recommended update for open-vm-tools
| Announcement ID: | SUSE-RU-2025:1097-1 |
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| Release Date: | 2025-04-02T08:05:29Z |
| Rating: | important |
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An update that has one fix can now be installed.
Description:
This update for open-vm-tools fixes the following issues:
- Ensure vmtoolsd.service and vgauthd.service are set to enabled by default. Do this by removing vmblock-fuse.service from the %pre section in the spec file. vmblock-fuse.service still remains in the %pre desktop section (bsc#1237180).
- remove unused pcre build dependency
- Revert previous change. The proposed solutions was non-standard.
- Ensure vmtoolsd.service, vgauthd.service, and vmblock-fuse.service are set to enabled by default (bsc#1237180).
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:
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended Security
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-LTSS-EXTENDED-SECURITY-2025-1097=1
Package List:
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended Security (x86_64)
- open-vm-tools-debugsource-12.5.0-4.80.1
- open-vm-tools-12.5.0-4.80.1
- open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-12.5.0-4.80.1
- open-vm-tools-salt-minion-12.5.0-4.80.1
- open-vm-tools-sdmp-12.5.0-4.80.1
- libvmtools0-debuginfo-12.5.0-4.80.1
- open-vm-tools-debuginfo-12.5.0-4.80.1
- libvmtools0-12.5.0-4.80.1
- open-vm-tools-sdmp-debuginfo-12.5.0-4.80.1
- open-vm-tools-desktop-12.5.0-4.80.1