Adding this comment as a Note to Self, for future reference. I just had
to reinstall Ubuntu 18.04 on the same server. This time, after setting
the (Linux) system time using the `date` command, I then ran:
```
$ sudo hwclock --systohc
```
so that my local change would 'back-propagate' to the H/W c
I just encountered this same problem while trying to install Ubuntu
18.04 on a server I inherited from another team. Unfortunately, its BIOS
is password-protected and nobody knows the password, so... I had to find
a different workaround. It turns out that—instead of changing the BIOS
to store time
Thank you all for your help!
I'll get this version and test as soon as I'm able.
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Title:
Please backport open-vm-tools 2:10.2.0-3 (main) from bio
Thank you all for your work on this!
Christian, my original bug (which this came out of) was about needing
updates for both open-vmtools AND the open-vm-tools-desktop package. I
understand that the open-vm-tools-desktop packages needs to be updated
in step with OVT. Is it being addressed please?
Hi Emily,
I'm sorry, I posted my previous message in a hurry without checking out
what the vulnerabilities involved.
Thanks for your response and the CVE link for open-vm-tools. That's
helpful!
Can you please tell me the URL for the companion open-vm-tools-desktop
package? It wasn't obvious.
Update: There are security vulnerabilities in the current version OVT
10.0.7. Can you please update this ticket appropriately?
I don't yet know where the CVE's are publicly published but VMware support tell
me:
"
Later releases of VMware Tools specifically 10.0.9 for CVE listed in VMSA -
VMSA
PS: IMO this ticket should address the issue of rebasing OVT across LTS
releases, not just backporting one package from bionic to xenial.
We need to rely on the latest stable OVT being available in all LTS
releases when we upgrade to 18.04 later this year.
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Hi,
VMware Tools Product Management Team (indirectly) responded to me. They
are also disappointed that Canonical is not rebasing open-vm-tools for
LTS releases. (I too would suggest it is in Canonical's interest to
keep open-vm-tools updated for LTS releases)
I don't know what discussions you f
I've had an unofficial response that VMware will continue to include
Xenial in the supported OSes list for ESXi if VMware tools is updated.
However I'm waiting for the support person to get an official statement,
which I hope I can quote for you.
They're still talking internally
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Thank you again for your help.
I'm very disappointed by the overall response to this issue. If you've
already contacted the VMware staffers working on the GitHub repo, then I
wouldn't expect much from the business critical support ticket I've
raised.
We need to know that the distros we use will m
It's take a few days to get through some internal delays about raising
the ticket. It should be acted on soon, although as I said before I'm
unsure if it will get the right result.
Have you tried to contact the VMware people who maintain the open-vm-tools repo
in Github by any chance? I wonder
Thanks again. It will be a few days until I'm able to do it, but I will
raise a job and request assistance from VMware.
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Title:
Package two year
Sorry to hear that the build is messy.
Thanks for putting the time in that you have. I've got plenty of other
things to do so I'm just checking every few days for the build to
succeed.
Would this be much easier if the new packages were in backports only? In
hindsight that is OK with me.
If so
Thank you again.
If you have something specific you'd like VMware to act on, I can raise
a support ticket with them but it will take a few days before there's
any chance of action. I'm not sure I can get much traction, but it's
worth a try.
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Hello Christian,
Thank you for your work on this! Sorry to hear about build problem. I hope
it's not difficult to resolve. I am looking forward to trying this.
I do not feel this is a "comfort feature" but instead a compatibility
requirement for Xenial to be supported on the latest ESXi 6.5 u
Thank you very much!
I will try the package from your ppa as soon as I'm able.
Please note that the related open-vm-tools-desktop package also needs to be
kept at the same version as open-vm-tools. As I mentioned we're using VMware's
"Horizon View" product so I require this also.
Do I need to r
Also, I hate to burden you more, but VMware tools seems to be updated
every 3/4 months in line with ESXi patches. IMO it should be updated at
least quarterly.
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Thank you both for your responses!
What needs to happen for a "platform enablement" bugfix?
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Title:
Package two years out of date
To manage not
Hello Christian,
Thank you for your fast response and the explanation.
Despite the difference in release time, I don't see this as a major upgrade but
instead a required bugfix to maintain compatibility with another vendor's
products.
I work in an enterprise environment and am working on a p
I can't find any security bugs fixed, but there are good fixes like
this:
"Kernel modules were not upgraded after upgrading OSPs using the recommended
procedure
The package vmware-tools-esx-kmods is a meta package that depends on the kernel
module package. Installing it with yum/apt/zypper gets
PS: There are multiple significant bugfixes for Linux in the updated
version.
Here are the release notes, I believe the latest does not include the
fixes from previous versions (all these releases are newer than the
Xenial version)
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Tools/10.2/rn/vmware-tools-1020
Public bug reported:
The latest Xenial open-vm-tools package is almost two years out of date.
I'm building Xenial systems in an up-to-date VMware environment and I
need VMware tools updated to the latest stable version. We have
experienced problems with VMware products when different components
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