The release notes cover the following topics:
- What's New
- Internationalization
- Compatibility Notes
- Resolved Issues
- Known Issues from Earlier Releases
open-vm-tools is a suite of utilities that enhances the performance of the virtual machine's guest operating system and improves management of the virtual machine.
- Resolved Issues: This release of open-vm-tools 10.1.5 addresses issues that have been documented in the Resolved Issues section.
open-vm-tools 10.1.5 is available in the following languages:
- English
- French
- German
- Spanish
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Simplified Chinese
- Traditional Chinese
Please refer to VMware Compatibility Guide for compatibility related information.
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Authentication failure is reported as unknown general system error.
Attempts to authenticate through VGAuth service might result in an authentication-specific error such as an expired account or password. The authentication-specific error might then be incorrectly reported as an unknown general system error, similar to the following:CommunicationException: Failed to create temp file on target <IP_ADDRESS>: A general system error occurred: Unknown error
This issue is resolved in this release.
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Unable to backup virtual machines with active Docker containers.
Attempts to take quiesced snapshots may fail on RHEL 7 guest operating systems that are running Docker containers. Docker version 1.12.x and later create special mount points for containers. These mount points are recorded as 'net:[NUMBER]' instead of absolute paths in /proc/self/mounts on the system.
Note: To see the issue tracked by Red Hat, see Red Hat Bugzilla.
This issue is resolved in this release.
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Common Agent Framework in open-vm-tools fails to build in Ubuntu 14.04
Common Agent Framework in open-vm-tools fails to build in Ubuntu 14.04 with rabbitmq-c version lower than 0.8.0Workaround: Upgrade rabbitmq-c to version 0.8.0 or later for TLS1.2 support in Common Agent Framework.