Tracker item #3297924, was opened at 2011-05-05 08:49
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Status: Open
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Submitted By: Timo Gurr (tgurr)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Wrong "Guest OS" information in vSphere client displayed

Initial Comment:
The guest is configured as "Other 2.6x Linux (64-bit)", attached screenshot 
(vmware-tools_stopped.png). 

# uname -a
Linux wwwproxy 2.6.38.5 #2 SMP Wed May 4 12:33:49 CEST 2011 x86_64 Six-Core AMD 
Opteron(tm) Processor 2425 HE AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

After starting open-vm-tools-2011.04.25-402641 the information in vCenter 
changes to "Other (32-bit)", attached screenshot (vmware-tools_started.png) 
which is obviously wrong.

VMware vSphere vCenter Client/Server is Version 4.1.0 Build 345043.

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Comment By: Greg Emerick (gemerick)
Date: 2011-07-20 20:21

Message:
lsb_release -sd returns: "Fedora release 9 (Sulphur)"

I can see where that would get me Other (32-bit).  

Could you give me some idea of what tools are looking for in the response
to indicate 64 bit?  If I have to, I'll make this return what's necessary,
since it's not used by our appliance for any other purpose.

Also, would there be any side-effects to just allowing this to happen? The
vmx file is still set to Other (64 bit).

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Comment By: Marcelo Vanzin (mvanzin)
Date: 2011-07-20 18:36

Message:
Tools will generally use the output of "lsb_release -sd" to figure out the
OS information. Fedora 9 should have that; what's the output of that
command in your VM?

If lsb_release is not available, then that's probably the cause.

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Comment By: Greg Emerick (gemerick)
Date: 2011-07-18 21:44

Message:
I'm seeing this on Fedora 9 as well with open-vm-tools-2011.06.27-437995.
Anything I can provide to assist? vSphere 4.1.0 Build 260247

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