[Bug 1975383] [NEW] Please enable vmci support

2022-05-21 Thread Oliver Kurth
Public bug reported: zmq supports vsock for communication between virtual machines and hosts. For example, to listen on a vsock port you can specify vmci://*: for the socket. This feature is enabled with the option '--with-vmci' for the configure script. I have made that change in the debian/r

[Bug 1885025] Re: Seamless mouse breaks when changing display scaling

2020-06-30 Thread Oliver Kurth
This is the reply I got from our MKS team: -- I'll bet the guest driver is switching to a software cursor at that point, which trips up our "Gaming Mouse" heuristic. They should be able to change the UI setting for Gaming Mouse from "Automatic" to "Never" to fix that. Assuming that's the issue

Re: [Bug 1885025] Re: Seamless mouse breaks when changing display scaling

2020-06-26 Thread Oliver Kurth
No, I haven't seen or heard about this. I forwarded to the team that works on this. Oliver From: boun...@canonical.com on behalf of Christian Ehrhardt  <1885...@bugs.launchpad.net> Sent: Friday, June 26, 2020 4:37 AM To: Oliver Kurth Subject: [Bug

[Bug 1877678] Re: add sdmp plugin as a separate package

2020-06-17 Thread Oliver Kurth
We now have a patch that replaces 'netstat' with 'ss' because the former is deprecated. We just created an extra branch with the changes, plus two minor sdmp related fixes: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm- tools/commits/stable-11.1.0-SDMP-fixes -- You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 1877678] Re: add sdmp plugin as a separate package

2020-06-08 Thread Oliver Kurth
As noted on the Debian bug: Hi, because of "netstat" being widely deprecated now, we are going to change the sdmp plugin to use "ss" instead. There is no point in continuing with the current version of sdmp in 11.1.0, so please put this on hold. We are going to have a fixed version in our next re

[Bug 1877678] [NEW] add sdmp plugin as a separate package

2020-05-08 Thread Oliver Kurth
Public bug reported: Version 11.1.0 adds the sdmp plugin, see https://marketplace.vmware.com/vsx/solutions/vrealize-operations- service-discovery-management-pack?ref=search This should be in an optional separate package. Attached is a patch for the Debian scripts that would create this package. T

[Bug 1877672] [NEW] open-vm-tools 11.1.0 released

2020-05-08 Thread Oliver Kurth
Public bug reported: We have released open-vm-tools 11.1.0. See https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/stable-11.1.0 See also at Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi- bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=960061 ** Affects: open-vm-tools (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New --

[Bug 1869074] [NEW] Please add appinfo plugin

2020-03-25 Thread Oliver Kurth via ubuntu-bugs
Public bug reported: This is also reported at Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi- bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=954958 We have added a plugin in open-vm-tools. It did not make part of the 11.0.5 release, but has been tested by us. It's part of the Wndows version, and will be part of our next release. F

[Bug 1862414] [NEW] lots of entries in vmware-vmsvc-root.log "[ warning] [guestinfo] GuestInfoGetDiskDevice: Missing disk device name;

2020-02-07 Thread Oliver Kurth via ubuntu-bugs
Public bug reported: Also reported at Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi- bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=950888 When using the LSI Logic Parallel SCSI controller lots of log messages are generated. These are benign but may fill up logs quickly. We are working on fixing the root cause. This was first rep

[Bug 1844834] Re: open-vm-tools 11.0.0 released

2019-12-12 Thread Oliver Kurth via ubuntu-bugs
Thank you. I notified the team to test this. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1844834 Title: open-vm-tools 11.0.0 released To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.la

[Bug 1847157] Re: memory leaks in open-vm-tools

2019-10-08 Thread Oliver Kurth via ubuntu-bugs
Currently we do not have any plans to release any new version of open- vm-tools from the 10.3.x branch. The list of commits to be applied is correct. The first two changes (015db4c0 and 7b874f37) are part of 11.0. The last one (26b9edbe) is in the devel branch, and will be part of any upcoming 11

[Bug 1847157] [NEW] memory leaks in open-vm-tools

2019-10-07 Thread Oliver Kurth via ubuntu-bugs
Public bug reported: We have discovered a few memory leaks in open-vm-tools, related to the vix plugin. We have created a branch for 10.3.10 on github that includes fixes: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/tree/stable-10.3.10-vix- memory-leaks Also reported at Debian: https://bugs.debian.or

[Bug 1844834] [NEW] open-vm-tools 11.0.0 released

2019-09-20 Thread Oliver Kurth via ubuntu-bugs
Public bug reported: We have released open-vm-tools 11.0.0, see https://github.com/vmware /open-vm-tools/releases/tag/stable-11.0.0 . Also filed at Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi- bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=940853 ** Affects: open-vm-tools (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New

[Bug 1836500] Re: open-vm-tools

2019-07-19 Thread Oliver Kurth via ubuntu-bugs
I filed an internal bug to track this. As recommended by Christian, we need logs from /var/log/vmware-*.log and and the output of 'sudo journalctl' to see what's going on here. It looks like it's reproducible from the backup, so if ssh login is not enabled yet, try to repro with that enabled and th

[Bug 1822204] Re: open-vm-tools 10.3.10 released

2019-06-07 Thread Oliver Kurth via ubuntu-bugs
Thank you. I have notified our testing team to take care of this. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1822204 Title: open-vm-tools 10.3.10 released To manage notifications about this bug

[Bug 1814832] Re: Correct and/or improve handling of certain quiesced snapshot failures

2019-04-11 Thread Oliver Kurth via ubuntu-bugs
Okay, I tested the quiesced snapshots, both for bionic and cosmic, using open-vm-tools 2:10.3.5-7~ubuntu0.18.04.1 and 2:10.3.5-7~ubuntu0.18.10.1. I looked at debug logs, everything is normal. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubu

[Bug 1814832] Re: Correct and/or improve handling of certain quiesced snapshot failures

2019-04-11 Thread Oliver Kurth via ubuntu-bugs
Oh, nevermind. Installing from -proposed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1814832 Title: Correct and/or improve handling of certain quiesced snapshot failures To manage notifications

Re: [Bug 1814832] Re: Correct and/or improve handling of certain quiesced snapshot failures

2019-04-11 Thread Oliver Kurth via ubuntu-bugs
m not testing the wrong ones. Also, where can I find the packages for cosmic? Thanks, Oliver From: boun...@canonical.com on behalf of Christian Ehrhardt  <1814...@bugs.launchpad.net> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2019 11:50 PM To: Oliver Kurth Subject: [Bug

Re: [Bug 1814832] Re: Correct and/or improve handling of certain quiesced snapshot failures

2019-04-10 Thread Oliver Kurth via ubuntu-bugs
with the same changes. Thanks, Oliver From: boun...@canonical.com on behalf of Christian Ehrhardt  <1814...@bugs.launchpad.net> Sent: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 11:10 PM To: Oliver Kurth Subject: [Bug 1814832] Re: Correct and/or improve handling of certain qu

[Bug 1822204] [NEW] open-vm-tools 10.3.10 released

2019-03-28 Thread Oliver Kurth via ubuntu-bugs
Public bug reported: We have released open-vm-tools 10.3.10. open-vm-tools 10.3.10 is available for download from GitHub: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/tree/stable-10.3.10 For more details and changes, please refer to the release notes at https://github.com/vmware/open-vm- tools/blob

[Bug 1804287] Re: vgauth needs to start before vmtoolsd

2019-03-11 Thread Oliver Kurth via ubuntu-bugs
@Bernd, just the fixes in the stable-10.3.5-quiesced-snapshot branch. The other branch from 10.3.5 , stable-10.3.5-appmonitorlib was created on a request by another OS vendor, and is not needed in other distributions. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 1804287] Re: vgauth needs to start before vmtoolsd

2019-03-11 Thread Oliver Kurth via ubuntu-bugs
Thanks all for the update! I asked our QE team to verify the SRM fix, I will let you know. I just did a sanity check for the quiesced snapshot fix, it looks good. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.

[Bug 1813944] Re: Backport recent release 10.3.5 to latest LTS

2019-02-12 Thread Oliver Kurth via ubuntu-bugs
We did a quick sanity check for the quiescing related changes, looks good. I also asked our test team to test this (all of 10.3.5) too. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1813944 Title: B

[Bug 1814832] Re: Correct and/or improve handling of certain quiesced snapshot failures

2019-02-05 Thread Oliver Kurth via ubuntu-bugs
A short summary of the changes: - Attempt to notify the host that a backup manifest is available on every completed snapshot. Previously vmtoolsd attempted to detect whether the host was running an older version of ESX that did not support receiving a backup manifest, which occasionally result

[Bug 1814832] [NEW] Correct and/or improve handling of certain quiesced snapshot failures

2019-02-05 Thread Oliver Kurth via ubuntu-bugs
Public bug reported: Customers may hit issues with quiesced snapshots under certain circumstances. This is fixed in a branch forked from 10.3.5: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/tree/stable-10.3.5-quiesced- snapshot A more detailed description of the issue can be found in the individual c

[Bug 1804287] Re: vgauth needs to start before vmtoolsd

2018-12-12 Thread Oliver Kurth
Okay, the packages have been tested by the SRM team. It works as expected now. Thanks for fixing this! Also, updates on Scott's questions: a) vgauth isn't always required, but to avoid issues when it is it's better to have it running always. However, it is already enabled by default. What if a

[Bug 1804287] Re: vgauth needs to start before vmtoolsd

2018-12-10 Thread Oliver Kurth
I pinged the team again to test these packages. Overall, the packages seem fine, as tested by Yuhua Zou on our email thread, quoted below: It works well when do sanity check for open-vm-tools 10.3.5 from ppa: ci-train-ppa-service/3530 1. Check in the following VMs disco-server-cloudimg-amd64.o

[Bug 1804287] Re: vgauth needs to start before vmtoolsd

2018-12-07 Thread Oliver Kurth
I forwarded those questions to the developer for vgauth. For a) my take is that vmtoolsd runs fine without vgauth, only when special authentication is required is it needed. So I am not sure if Requires=vgauth.service' is a good idea. -- You received this bug notification because you are a membe

[Bug 1804287] Re: vgauth needs to start before vmtoolsd

2018-11-29 Thread Oliver Kurth
Thanks Christian! Can you tell what versions of the package are affected? I'd expect all older versions have this issue, but I am not sure since it hasn't been reported before. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://b

[Bug 1804287] Re: vgauth needs to start before vmtoolsd

2018-11-28 Thread Oliver Kurth
Thanks for addressing this issue. The packages are built for Ubuntu/disco (19.04) - any chance these can be built with bionic? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1804287 Title: vgauth ne

[Bug 1804287] [NEW] vgauth needs to start before vmtoolsd

2018-11-20 Thread Oliver Kurth
Public bug reported: In Ubuntu 18.04, when the VM is booting with disconnected NICs after SRM (Site Recovery Manager) failover, the VGAuthService is initialized by vmtoold far later than deployPkg script execution + the hardcoded 100 seconds timeout for deployPkg POSIX processes. This causes the

[Bug 1804060] Re: vgauth should use the -s option for logging

2018-11-20 Thread Oliver Kurth
The Debian bug I referred to is at https://bugs.debian.org/cgi- bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=856429 . Launchpad shouldn't be so egocentric and assume all bug numbers are launchpad bug numbers ;-). ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #856429 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=856429

[Bug 1804060] [NEW] vgauth should use the -s option for logging

2018-11-19 Thread Oliver Kurth
Public bug reported: I see this in version 2:10.3.0-0ubuntu1~18.04.3, but I think it affects older versions too: $ cat /lib/systemd/system/vgauth.service [Unit] Description=Authentication service for virtual machines hosted on VMware Documentation=http://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools Condition

[Bug 1793219] Re: open-vm-tools guest stats overflow

2018-10-09 Thread Oliver Kurth
Here is a more detailed explanation of the bug: Linux kernel defines /proc/vmstat::pgpgin as type unsigned long, so it is uint32 on 32 bit Linux, uint64 on 64 bit Linux. VMware Tools reads /proc/vmstat::pgpgin and saves it as uint64 type on both 32 & 64 bit Linux. When 64 bit kernel /proc/vm

[Bug 1793219] Re: open-vm-tools guest stats overflow

2018-09-26 Thread Oliver Kurth
Okay, informed myself. The issue is hard to reproduce. A customer had this issue about once per week, it depends on how much memory paging in/out is occurring. The trouble though is that because these overflows create such huge numbers that statistics for the whole cluster get polluted. That is why

[Bug 1793219] Re: open-vm-tools guest stats overflow

2018-09-26 Thread Oliver Kurth
If I understand correctly, Bionic and Cosmic do not support 32 bit, is that right? So this can only be tested in xenial with a 32 bit VM. I am not familiar enough with the issue to know how to reproduce this - I'll ask. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bug

[Bug 1793219] [NEW] open-vm-tools guest stats overflow

2018-09-18 Thread Oliver Kurth
Public bug reported: Reported at Debian as well, see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi- bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=909146 : There is an unhandled overflow issue in open-vm-tools in the code for guest stats reporting. This cause artifacts (spikes) in rate stats, for example "Guest|Page In Rate per second".

[Bug 1790145] Re: 99-vmware-scsi-udev.rules has no effect - timeout by 30 not 180

2018-09-04 Thread Oliver Kurth
Hm, again. I filed an internal bug. Thanks for reporting. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1790145 Title: 99-vmware-scsi-udev.rules has no effect - timeout by 30 not 180 To manage not

[Bug 1782451] Re: open-vm-tools 2:10.2.0-3~ubuntu0.16.04.1 customization doesn't work with predictable network interface names

2018-07-27 Thread Oliver Kurth
Sorry, I was on a vacation, so didn't notice this earlier. I informed Peter from the guest customization team. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1782451 Title: open-vm-tools 2:10.2.0-3~u

[Bug 1758428] Re: Subprocesses of StartProgramInGuest fail when creating temporary files

2018-03-26 Thread Oliver Kurth
Okay, so I now tried to reproduce the original issue with code that is very similar to the code in the bug description, but wasn't able to. @Tim, can you please check if unsetting PrivateTmp option fixes your issue? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, w

[Bug 1741390] Re: Please backport open-vm-tools 2:10.2.0-3 (main) from bionic

2018-03-26 Thread Oliver Kurth
I found a fix for bug #1758428 and updated the issue. It's related to the use of PrivateTmp=yes in the service file. Since this is a backport from 18.04, I expect the same issue there, and in Debian. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscrib

[Bug 1758428] Re: Subprocesses of StartProgramInGuest fail when creating temporary files

2018-03-26 Thread Oliver Kurth
I was able to to reproduce a similar issue by trying to use ListFilesInGuest in /tmp. We found that the issue can be fixed by commenting out the option PrivateTmp=yes under [Services] in /lib/systemd/system/open-vm-tools.service and the commands # systemctl daemon-reload # systemctl restart open-v

[Bug 1741390] Re: Please backport open-vm-tools 2:10.2.0-3 (main) from bionic

2018-03-26 Thread Oliver Kurth
We do see weird issues with that build similar to bug #1758428, so please hold on with the upload. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1741390 Title: Please backport open-vm-tools 2:10.2.0

[Bug 1758428] Re: Subprocesses of StartProgramInGuest fail when creating temporary files

2018-03-23 Thread Oliver Kurth
Also, does this work with the version of open-vm-tools that ships with 16.04? Did you try the same test with 18.04? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1758428 Title: Subprocesses of Start

[Bug 1758428] Re: Subprocesses of StartProgramInGuest fail when creating temporary files

2018-03-23 Thread Oliver Kurth
Tim, what exactly do you mean with 'Subprocesses execute correctly from open-vm-tools open-vm-tools-10.2.0-7253323, when compiled from source'? Is this a rebuild of the package, or is this a build of just the open- vmware-tools source without Debian package scripts? -- You received this bug notif

[Bug 1639222] Re: "Failed to get unit file state for run-vmblockx2dfuse.mount: No such file or directory" during open-vm-tools-desktop postinstall in Ubuntu 16.10

2017-09-11 Thread Oliver Kurth
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1513531 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1513531 Is there an update on this bug? We are hiting this issue frequently when testing open-vm-tools-desktop (version 2:10.1.10-2) with Ubuntu 17.10. The root cause for this issue is escaping. run-vmblock\x2dfuse

[Bug 1682647] Re: vmtoolsd user process is not started for KDE session in kubuntu 17.04

2017-04-13 Thread Oliver Kurth
Note that this in an issue with Kubuntu 17.04 (KDE), but on in Ubuntu 17.04 (gnome). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1682647 Title: vmtoolsd user process is not started for KDE session

[Bug 1682647] [NEW] vmtoolsd user process is not started for KDE session in kubuntu 17.04

2017-04-13 Thread Oliver Kurth
Public bug reported: In a VMware virtual machine, with open-vm-tools-desktop installed, there should be a user process being started (via vmware-user-suid-wrapper in /etc/xdg/autostart/vmware-user.desktop) , so that automatic resolution setting, copy and paste and drag and drop work. The file /et

[Bug 1677196] Re: missing the executive file VGAuthService for open-vm-tool-10.1.5

2017-03-29 Thread Oliver Kurth
Looks like VGAuthservice is not in the package: vmware@ubuntu:~$ dpkg -L open-vm-tools | grep VGAuth vmware@ubuntu:~$ Looks like the package is built without xmlsecurity, and without xerces. >From debian/rules: override_dh_auto_configure: dh_auto_configure --sourcedirectory=open-vm-tool

[Bug 1482777] Re: [MIR] open-vm-tools 10.0.x build dependencies: xml-security-c and xerces-c

2016-04-11 Thread Oliver Kurth
Please note that the CVEs mentioned in the original description are all about versions prior to 1.7.1. The current version of xml-security is 1.7.3. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/148277

[Bug 1546312] Re: Please update to open-vm-tools 10.0.7

2016-04-05 Thread Oliver Kurth
When building open-vm-tools for Ubuntu 16.10, we encountered a build error: command line option '-std=c++11' is valid for C++/ObjC++ but not for C [-Werror] I am not sure if this is already addressed in the patches for the Debian package, but to make sure the following patch fixes it: //dep

[Bug 1546312] Re: Please update to open-vm-tools 10.0.7

2016-03-19 Thread Oliver Kurth
Hi Robert, I asked the developer, and this is the description. The utility also give a usage information. Let me know if this helps. Description: The namespace tool exposes VMODL and Guest side API for a publish/subscribe mechanism which enables reliable/persistent communication and reliable as

[Bug 1546312] Re: Please update to open-vm-tools 10.0.7

2016-02-18 Thread Oliver Kurth
Okay, done. See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=815116 Thx, Oliver ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #815116 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=815116 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ub

[Bug 1546312] [NEW] Please update to open-vm-tools 10.0.7

2016-02-16 Thread Oliver Kurth
Public bug reported: Version 10.0.7 of open-vm-tools has been released. It is avaliable at: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/tree/stable-10.0.x You can refer to https://github.com/vmware/open-vm- tools/blob/stable-10.0.x/open-vm-tools/ChangeLog for changes since 10.0.0. It contains mainly

[Bug 1492429] [NEW] please update open-vm-tools to version 10.0.0

2015-09-04 Thread Oliver Kurth
Public bug reported: Version 10.0.0 of open-vm-tools has been released. It is avaliable at: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/tree/stable-10.0.x See https://github.com/vmware/open-vm- tools/blob/stable-10.0.x/ReleaseNotes.md for release notes. This is also reported at Debian: https://bugs.

[Bug 1468114] [NEW] please update open-vm-tools to 9.10.2

2015-06-23 Thread Oliver Kurth
Public bug reported: Version 9.10.2 of open-vm-tools has been released, available on github: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/tree/stable-9.10.2 Also reported at Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi- bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=789722 Thanks, Oliver ** Affects: open-vm-tools (Ubuntu) Impor

[Bug 1430109] [NEW] vmtoolsd does not start automatically after reboot with systemd

2015-03-09 Thread Oliver Kurth
Public bug reported: In Ubuntu 15.04 Beta1, when open-vm-tools is installed, it will not start automatically after a reboot. It runs after the commanad (as root): systemctl start open-vm-tools With the command systemctl enable open-vm-tools it will start after rebooting. ProblemType: Bug DistroR

[Bug 1267254] [NEW] Please do not package devel snapshots

2014-01-08 Thread Oliver Kurth
Public bug reported: Hello, we (VMware) noticed that the latest versions of open-vm-tools in saucy and trusty are built from the devel snapshots. Of course we are happy that Ubuntu ships packages for open-vm-tools and support this. However, we do not recommend shipping devel snapshots. Please b