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
