openSUSE Recommended Update: Recommended update for open-vm-tools ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-RU-2018:1861-1 Rating: moderate References: #1089181 Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that has one recommended fix can now be installed. Description: This update for open-vm-tools to version 10.2.5 provides the following fixes (bsc#1089181): - Make it compatible with supported versions of VMware vSphere ESXi 5.5 and later, VMware Workstation 14.0 and VMware Fusion 10.0.0. - Quiesced snapshot: Ability to exclude specific file systems from quiesced snapshots on Linux guest operating systems. For more details, see: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Tools/index.html - Disable display mode setting: A configuration option is introduced to disable normal display mode setting functionality using open-vm-tools. For more details, see: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/53572 This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP3:Update update project. Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Recommended Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE Leap 42.3: zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-688=1 Package List: - openSUSE Leap 42.3 (x86_64): libvmtools-devel-10.2.5-10.1 libvmtools0-10.2.5-10.1 libvmtools0-debuginfo-10.2.5-10.1 open-vm-tools-10.2.5-10.1 open-vm-tools-debuginfo-10.2.5-10.1 open-vm-tools-debugsource-10.2.5-10.1 open-vm-tools-desktop-10.2.5-10.1 open-vm-tools-desktop-debuginfo-10.2.5-10.1 References: https://bugzilla.suse.com/1089181