Marcelo,
Petr,

Is the "bug" in vSphere 4.x flaky enough for the tools status
to occasionally be reported as "unmanaged" for unsupported guests?

   - yesterday my OSR6 VM was "Unmanaged" for several reboots
     and restarts of the vmtoolsd
   - today, following a power-hit to our Intel Modular Servers,
     an OSR507 VM was rebooted and is reporting a VMtools status of
     "Unmanaged" - through several shutdown and power-up cycles. 
     Previously the status was being reported as "Not Installed".

Is there anything that I can do to reduce the number of tools
running, not  running, version not available, not installed
messages that are being dropped into /var/log/vmware/hostd.log?

-- John


Marcelo Vanzin wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> On 07/21/2011 01:32 PM, John Wolfe wrote:
>   
>> Jul 21 14:24:12.732: vcpu-1| VMXVmdb_SetToolsVersionState: status value set 
>> to
>> 'notAvailable'
>>     
>
> I'm pretty sure this is a bug in VMware's host code, so there's nothing you 
> can
> do from the Tools side. Someone else reported a similar issue here before, and
> we've already fixed the host code in the vSphere 5.0 release. (I don't think 
> the
> fix was backported to any maintenance release of previous vSphere versions.)
>
>   

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