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.
* 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:
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.
The only following features are tested on NetBSD/amd64 7.99.39 without vmt(4)
on VMware Workstation 12 Player 12.0.5 for Windows or ESXi 6.0u2.
* Hostname and IP address report
* Shutdown and reboot operations from host
* Copy and paste of text string between host and guest
* Guest clock sync
The other features are not tested. For example,
* Drag and drop between host and guest
* VM HA, heartbeat
* HGFS, shared folder
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:
Common versioning: Infrastructure changes to enable reporting of the true version of open-vm-tools. This feature is dependent on host support.
Quiesced snapshots enhancements for Linux guests running IO workload: Robustness related enhancements in quiesced snapshot operation. The vmtoolsd service supports caching of log messages when guest IO has been quiesced. Enhancements in the vmbackup plugin use a separate thread to quiesce the guest OS to avoid timeout issues due to heavy I/O in the guest.
Shared Folders: For Linux distributions with kernel version 4.0.0 and higher, there is a new FUSE based Shared Folders client which is used as a replacement for the kernel mode client.
ESXi Serviceability: Default vmtoolsd logging is directed to a file instead of syslog. vmware-toolbox-cmd is enhanced for setting vmtoolsd logging levels.
GuestInfo Enhancements: Plugin enhancements to report more than 64 IP addresses from the guest. These enhancements will be available only after upgrading the host because the guest IP addresses limit also exists on the host side.
Internationalization
open-vm-tools 10.0.0 supports the following languages:
English
French
German
Spanish
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Compatibility
open-vm-tools 10.0.0 is compatible with all supported versions of VMware vSphere, VMware Workstation 12.0 and VMware Fusion 8.0.
enhancements:
- Simple command-line tools to interface with VMware host
- Guest OS scripts that can be triggered by the VMware host
- Startup script
When compiled with X11 support (the default), this release also provides:
- GTK+-based GUI to configure time sync, device connections, and scripts
- Helper application to interface with the xf86-video-vmware driver,
enabling dynamic screen resize
Packages Collection.
The Open Virtual Machine Tools (open-vm-tools) are the open source
implementation of VMware Tools. They are a set of guest operating
system virtualization components that enhance performance and user
experience of virtual machines. As virtualization technology rapidly
becomes mainstream, each virtualization solution provider implements
their own set of tools and utilities to supplement the guest virtual
machine. However, most of the implementations are proprietary and are
tied to a specific virtualization platform.
The tools are currently composed of kernel modules for Linux and
user-space programs for all VMware supported Unix-like guest operating
systems. They provide several useful functions like:
* File transfer between a host and guest
* Improved memory management and network performance under
virtualization
* General mechanisms and protocols for communication between host
and guests and from guest to guest
