** Description changed: + [Impact] + + * In the past a lack of updated open-vm-tools versions was found fatal + and therefore we agreed to regularly backport those to the latest LTS. + This is backporting the recent version 11.1 to Focal. + + * The main bug for 11.0 is bug 1877672. But this time other than the + fixes/improvements this will also bring a new + plugin "sdmp" which I'd like to: + a) discuss separately fro the SRU process + b) have VMWare test explicitly as part of the verification + + [Test Case] + + * Test open-vm-tools done by VMWare QA Team as agreed for these + backports. + + [Regression Potential] + + * As I said this bug is especially for the sdmp plugin. I doubt it will + regress anyone since it is not installed by default (only a suggests). + The only (unlikely) case I can tihnk of is if someone does like + apt install open-vm-* + or something like that. But even in that case the plugin does not do + much until actually probed from the host. + + [Other Info] + + * This is a practice for or quite a while (almost two years now), see: + - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1741390 + - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1784638 + - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1813944 + - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1822204 + - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1844834 + - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1868012 + + The request back then came from the community and the decision back then + was between VMWare and Ubuntu. VMWare QA Team since then does the + qualification of these uploads as we (I) don't have a matrix of Host + versions for that around. + + Under the accepted special SRU cases [1] this qualifies for #2 and #3 of + [2]. + + [1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Documentation_for_Special_Cases + [2]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Other_safe_cases + + + --- + 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. This has been used in our internal testing. Note that there is an additional runtime dependency on net-tools for netstat. Also at Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=960065 Thanks, Oliver
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