Public bug reported:
Open-vm-tools release 11.3.0 has been released
open-vm-tools 11.3.0 has been released on June 18, 2021 containing:
- a number of bug and Coverity fixes.
- command line tool to control various aspects of the vmwgfx Linux
kernel module (open-vmtools-desktop)
- command line support tool for guest operations authentication configuration.
to support or utilize various vSphere features.
See: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/stable-11.3.0
Please refer to the release notes at https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-
tools/blob/stable-11.3.0/ReleaseNotes.md
The granular changes that have gone into the 11.3.0 release are in the
ChangeLog at https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-11.3.0
/open-vm-tools/ChangeLog
Suggested packaging changes needed to the debian/rules file:
1. vmwgfxctrl command- in open-vm-tools-desktop .deb package.
- requires access to libdrm and libudev to be compiled and will dlopen()
at runtime. Will quietly exit if runtime not available on guest VM.
Build dependencies: libdrm, libudev
Add to open-vm-tools-desktop package:
mv debian/open-vm-tools/usr/bin/vmwgfxctrl debian/open-vm-tools-
desktop/usr/bin
2. The open-vm-tools source release contains a complete example of a
tools.conf. Please package this open-vm-tools/tools.conf file ass
/etc/vmware-tools/tools.conf.example
New commands,libraries and vmsvc plugins to be a part of the open-vm-tools .deb
package
usr/bin/vmware-alias-import
usr/lib/libguestStoreClient.so.0*
usr/lib/open-vm-tools/plugins/vmsvc/libguestStore.so
usr/lib/open-vm-tools/plugins/vmsvc/libgdp.so
3. new vmsvc plugins:
%{_libdir}/libguestStoreClient.so.*
%{_libdir}/%{name}/plugins/vmsvc/libgdp.so
%{_libdir}/%{name}/plugins/vmsvc/libguestStore.so
** Affects: open-vm-tools (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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