open-vm-tools 11.3.5
For issues resolved in this release, see Resolved Issues section.
Added a configurable logging capability to the network script.
The network script has been updated to:
use vmware-toolbox-cmd to query any network logging configuration from the tools.conf file.
use vmtoolsd --cmd "log ..." to log a message to the vmx logfile when the logging handler is configured to "vmx" or when the logfile is full or is not writeable.
The hgfsmounter (mount.vmhgfs) command has been removed from open-vm-tools.
The hgfsmounter (mount.vmhgfs) command is no longer used in Linux open-vm-tools. It has been replaced by hgfs-fuse. Therefore, removing all references to the hgfsmounter in Linux builds.
Open-vm-tools 11.3.0
A small command line tool, vmwgfxctrl, has been added to open-vm-tools for Linux that can be used to control various aspects of the vmwgfx Linux kernel module. Currently it can both display and set the current topology of the vmwgfx kernel driver. It is useful when trying to configure custom resolutions on recent Linux distributions, including multi-monitor setups.
A command line tool, vmware-alias-import, has been added to open-vm-tools that can be used to import vgauth config data and apply it to the running vgauth service.
Changelog:
Resolved Issues
The open-vm-tools process might take a long time and consume 100% CPU of a core in a Linux OS with many IPv6 routes
Prior to open-vm-tools 10.3.0, gathering network adapter information in a Linux guest OS with many IPv6 routes was a time-consuming process with 100% use of the CPU of a core. The exported data contained only a maximum of 100 routes. IPv4 routes took precedence over IPv6, leading to data loss in reporting IPv6 routes. If there were more than 100 IPv4 routes, IPv6 routes were not reported.
This performance issue has been resolved in this release. The default routes gathering behavior can be overridden by configuring the values in the /etc/vmware-tools/tools.conf file:
[guestinfo]
max-ipv4-routes=0
max-ipv6-routes=0
Note: If they are not manually set, or an invalid value (over 100 or less than 0) is set, 'max-ipv4-routes' and 'max-ipv6-routes' are set to 100 by default. They can be set to 0 to disable the data collection.
This issue is resolved in this release.
Installation of the libvmtools package might fail the installation of VMware Tools
When the package "libvmtools0" is installed in SUSE Linux 12 and open-vm-tools is not installed, the VMware Tools installer fails. This is done to prevent an incomplete installation. Users have to uninstall both open-vm-tools and libvmtools0 packages to install VMware Tools.
Changelog:
open-vm-tools release 10.2.5 based on build 8068406
Resolved Issues
* open-vm-tools 10.2.0 does not recognize UFS filesystem partitions
open-vm-tools 10.2.0 has dropped UFS from the list of known
file system type. As a result, the default filesystem of Solaris
and FreeBSD is not recognized. open-vm-tools Services in the
GuestInfo for the virtual machine do not report these filesystems.
You might not be able to monitor the disk usage of UFS filesystems
with vRealize Operations or vCenter Managed Object Browser.
This issue is resolved in this release.
* Information about non-existing device mounted to a file system
was not reported
Few Linux guest operating systems might have a non-existing
device mounted to a filesystem. For example /dev/root/.
open-vm-tools does not report this information.
This issue is resolved in this release.
* Use x11/gtkmm3
Changelog:
Compatibility
* open-vm-tools 10.2.0 is compatible with all supported versions
of VMware vSphere ESXi 5.5 and later, VMware Workstation 14.0 and
VMware Fusion 10.0. See VMware Compatibility Guide for more information.
* Starting with VMware Tools version 10.2.0, Perl script based VMware
Tools installation for FreeBSD has been discontinued. Going forward,
FreeBSD systems are supported only through the open-vm-tools packages
directly available from FreeBSD package repositories. FreeBSD packages
for open-vm-tools 10.1.0 and later are available from FreeBSD package
repositories.
Resolved Issues
* Summary page of the VM does not list the IP address of the VMs in
the right order
* Guest authentication fails with a SystemError fault when the requested
password is expired
* The free space reported in vim.vm.GuestInfo.DiskInfo for a Linux guest
does not match with df command in the guest
* VMware user process might not restart after upgrades of open-vm-tools
Changelog:
* Add entries for MacOS 10.13 (High Sierra) to guest_os_tables.h.
* Report version data via guestinfo vars.
* For FreeBSD 11 and later the correct osname is "freeBSD11".
* Tools Hgfs Plugin: refresh Hgfs drives on client start
* If for some reason RandR12GetInfo failed to return RandR12Info,
should not follow the cleanup path to free it. Instead it
should return FALSE.
Changelog:
Fix for CVE-2015-5191
Open VMware Tools (CVE-2015-5191) contained multiple file system races in libDeployPkg, related to the use of hard-coded paths under /tmp.
Successful exploitation may result in a local privilege escalation. The impact of this vulnerability is low for distributions which have enabled PrivateTmp for the affected service.
We would like to thank Florian Weimer and Kurt Seifried of Red Hat Product Security for reporting this issue to us.
Set PKG_SYSCONFSUBDIR where appropriate, and use {MAKE,OWN}_DIRS to
create the directory tree under ${PKG_SYSCONFDIR} instead of using
INSTALLATION_DIRS.
Bump the PKGREVISION of packages that changed due to changes in the
package install scripts.
Changelog:
Fixed:
* Authentication failure is reported as unknown general system error.
* Unable to backup virtual machines with active Docker containers.
Changelog:
What's New
VMware Tools is a suite of utilities that enhances the performance of the virtual machine's guest operating system and improves management of the virtual machine. Read about the new and enhanced features in this release below:
vmware-namespace-cmd: Added vmware-namespace-cmd command line utility that exposes set/get commands for the namespace database in the VMX.
gtk3 support: open-vm-tools has been updated to use gtk3 libraries.
Common Agent Framework (CAF): CAF provides the basic services necessary to simplify secure and efficient management of agents inside virtual machines.
xmlsec1: Changed guest authentication to xmlsec1.
FreeBSD: Changes to support open-vm-tools on FreeBSD.
Automatic Linux Kernel Modules: Automatic rebuilding of kernel modules is enabled by default.
New sub-command: Added a new sub-command to push updated network information to the host on demand.
udev-rules: Added udev rules for configuring SCSI timeout in the guest.
Ubuntu 16.10: Fixes for running on Ubuntu 16.10.
Quiesced Snapshot: Fix for quiesced snapshot failure leaving guest file system quiesced.
Internationalization
open-vm-tools 10.1.0 supports the following languages:
English
French
German
Spanish
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Compatibility
open-vm-tools 10.1.0 is compatible with all supported versions of VMware vSphere, VMware Workstation 12.5 and VMware Fusion 8.5.
