Hi Oliver,
don't have the full code available right now, but please make sure this does
not match 9.10, which will be the next oldstable pointrelease.
Thanks,
Bernd
Am 6. August 2019 02:06:50 MESZ schrieb Oliver Kurth <oku...@vmware.com>:
>Package: open-vm-tools
>Version: 2:10.3.5-8
>
>During testing, we found this problem:
>
>After install the open-vm-tools 10.3.10 by "apt-get install
>open-vm-tools" in Debian 10.0.0 on ESXi 6.7GA , the guestID and
>guestFullName are not correct.
>
>---VM Tools Version---
># apt-get install open-vm-tools
># vmtoolsd -v
>VMware Tools daemon, version 10.3.10.10540 (build-12406962)
>
>---guestInfo in ESXi 6.7GA---
>Guest information:
>
>(vim.vm.GuestInfo) {
> toolsStatus = "toolsOk",
> toolsVersionStatus = "guestToolsUnmanaged",
> toolsVersionStatus2 = "guestToolsUnmanaged",
> toolsRunningStatus = "guestToolsRunning",
> toolsVersion = "10346",
> toolsInstallType = "guestToolsTypeOpenVMTools",
> toolsUpdateStatus = (vim.vm.GuestInfo.ToolsUpdateStatus) null,
> guestId = "other4xLinux64Guest", <----------------------------guestID
> guestFamily = "linuxGuest",
>guestFullName = "Other 4.x or later Linux (64-bit)",
><----------------------------guestFullName
>
>Root cause is the output of lsb_release, which outputs:
>
>$ lsb_release -sd
>Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
>
>But the code in open-vm-tools expects '10.'.
>
>Here is a patch to fix the issue:
>
>vmware@debian:~$ diff
>open-vm-tools-10.3.10-12406962/lib/misc/hostinfoPosix.c
>open-vm-tools-10.3.10-12406962.patched/lib/misc/hostinfoPosix.c
>817c817
>< } else if (strstr(distroLower, "10.")) {
>---
>> } else if (strstr(distroLower, " 10")) {
>
>
>There is a possible workaround with changing the code by putting these
>two lines into /etc/vmware-tools/tools.conf :
>
>[guestosinfo]
>short-name = debian10-64
>
>Oliver
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