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
This is the reply I got from our MKS team:
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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
No, I haven't seen or heard about this. I forwarded to the team that
works on this.
Oliver
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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
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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
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
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
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Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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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
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
Thank you. I notified the team to test this.
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open-vm-tools 11.0.0 released
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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
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
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
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Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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
Thank you. I have notified our testing team to take care of this.
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open-vm-tools 10.3.10 released
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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.
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Oh, nevermind. Installing from -proposed.
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m not testing the wrong ones. Also, where can
I find the packages for cosmic?
Thanks,
Oliver
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with the same changes.
Thanks,
Oliver
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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
@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.
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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.
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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.
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Title:
B
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
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
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
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
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.
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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.
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Thanks for addressing this issue.
The packages are built for Ubuntu/disco (19.04) - any chance these can
be built with bionic?
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Title:
vgauth ne
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
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 ;-).
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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
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
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
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.
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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".
Hm, again.
I filed an internal bug. Thanks for reporting.
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Title:
99-vmware-scsi-udev.rules has no effect - timeout by 30 not 180
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Sorry, I was on a vacation, so didn't notice this earlier. I informed
Peter from the guest customization team.
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Title:
open-vm-tools 2:10.2.0-3~u
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?
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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.
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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
We do see weird issues with that build similar to bug #1758428, so
please hold on with the upload.
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Title:
Please backport open-vm-tools 2:10.2.0
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?
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Subprocesses of Start
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?
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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
Note that this in an issue with Kubuntu 17.04 (KDE), but on in Ubuntu
17.04 (gnome).
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Title:
vmtoolsd user process is not started for KDE session
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
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
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.
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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
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
Okay, done. See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=815116
Thx, Oliver
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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
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.
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
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Impor
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
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
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