Open-vm-tools release 11.3.0 has been released

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Thank you for your bug report.

The open-vm-tools package update is on our roadmap for this release and will likely happen in the following months. I'm subscribing Christian to this bug, who is the person responsible for the merge.

1. vmwgfxctrl command- in open-vm-tools-desktop .deb package.

   - requires access to libdrm and libudev to be compiled and will dlopen()
     at runtime. Will quietly exit if runtime not available on guest VM.

   Build dependencies: libdrm, libudev

   Add to open-vm-tools-desktop package:

       mv debian/open-vm-tools/usr/bin/vmwgfxctrl debian/open-vm-tools-desktop/usr/bin

---

We already have those build dependencies.
Also the runtime dependencies already have drm and udev.

So all we need is the installation of the binary.

2. The open-vm-tools source release contains a complete example of a
   tools.conf. Please package this open-vm-tools/tools.conf file ass
   /etc/vmware-tools/tools.conf.example

It is nice to have the full example, but the suggested place is not the common one to put those. It would correctly go to /usr/share/doc/open-vm-tools/tools.conf.example.
I'd prepare that if it would not already be in the upstream chosen path.

# dpkg -S /etc/vmware-tools/tools.conf.example
open-vm-tools: /etc/vmware-tools/tools.conf.example

Nothing needed for this.

       usr/bin/vmware-alias-import

ok, adding that

       usr/lib/libguestStoreClient.so.0*

That should be automatically go into the -dev package.
We will have to check if it is needed anywhere else.

       usr/lib/open-vm-tools/plugins/vmsvc/libguestStore.so
       usr/lib/open-vm-tools/plugins/vmsvc/libgdp.so

ok, adding that

3. new vmsvc plugins:

       %{_libdir}/libguestStoreClient.so.*
       %{_libdir}/%{name}/plugins/vmsvc/libgdp.so
       %{_libdir}/%{name}/plugins/vmsvc/libguestStore.so

That is the same as above IMHO

vmware-alias-import is installed by the makefiles, no need for a debian rule.

This bug was fixed in the package open-vm-tools - 2:11.3.0-1

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open-vm-tools (2:11.3.0-1) experimental; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version 11.3.0 (Closes: #990163)(LP: #1933143)
    - d/rules: install new binary vmwgfxctrl into open-vm-tools-desktop
    - d/rules: add new binary vmware-alias-import to open-vm-tools
    - d/rules: add new vmsvc plugins libguestStore.so and libgdp.so
      to open-vm-tools
  * d/open-vm-tools.maintscript: remove stale conffiles (Closes: #868273)
  * d/control: add myself to uploaders
  * Cleanups flagged by tracker.debian.org
    - d/watch: fix to work with upstreams github tags
    - d/control: bump Standards-Version to 4.5.1 (no changes needed)
  * Cleanups for various Lintian findings
    - d/source/lintian-overrides: allow helper scripts by setting
      patch-file-present-but-not-mentioned-in-series
    - d/{open-vm-tools,open-vm-tools-dev}.lintian-overrides tolerate
      package-name-doesnt-match-sonames
    - d/{open-vm-tools,open-vm-tools-desktop}.lintian-overrides: tolerate
      no-manual-page until upstream issue 526 is resolved
    - d/control: fix skip-systemd-native-flag-missing-pre-depends warning by
      adding misc:Pre-Depends
    - d/copyright: rename non allowed license names to fix
      space-in-std-shortname-in-dep5-copyright warning
    - d/open-vm-tools-desktop.lintian-overrides: fix setuid override
    - d/rules: drop no more needed handling of pam vmtoolsd-x64
    - d/rules: put libs and .pc files in correct multiarch directories
    - d/rules: do not ship vmware-vgauth-smoketest (only meant for build&test,
      per upstream it can wipe system config and therefore should not be
      shipped after build - upstream issue 527)
  * d/control: Remove constraints unnecessary since stretch (from Janitor)

 -- Christian Ehrhardt <email address hidden> Tue, 06 Jul 2021 12:32:16 +0200

Impish entered feature freeze and as usual at this time we consider making this available as backports to the latest LTS now. I added Focal and Hirsute bug tasks.

PPA: https://launchpad.net/~ci-train-ppa-service/+archive/ubuntu/4665/+packages
MPs:
 F: https://code.launchpad.net/~paelzer/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+git/open-vm-tools/+merge/407893
 H: https://code.launchpad.net/~paelzer/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+git/open-vm-tools/+merge/407892

Review complete - I slightly updated the SRU template due to some good feedback, but other than that it was ok.

@SRU Team - this is still stuck behind glibc in Impish. In case that isn't resolved by the time this is ready I'd ask to hold it back to avoid having an older version in the newer release.

Uploading ...

Migrated in Impish wth the new glibc.
Still waiting to be accepted in F/H releases.

Hello John, or anyone else affected,

Accepted open-vm-tools into hirsute-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/2:11.3.0-2ubuntu0~ubuntu21.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-hirsute to verification-done-hirsute. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-hirsute. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Hello John, or anyone else affected,

Accepted open-vm-tools into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/2:11.3.0-2ubuntu0~ubuntu20.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-focal to verification-done-focal. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-focal. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Thanks Łukasz!

I have sent a mail, but also I see we have all the important VMWare-people subscribed on the bug.
Therefore we should be fine to wait for feedback here - looking forward to VMWare verification results.

Testing desktop graphical events on Workstation 16.1.2 build-17966106

20.04 - Focal - X11 desktop
====================================
- Added pre-release updates.
- Installed 11.3.0 (letting other updates pending)
 - note: using nautilus version 3.36.3
 - files DnD, C/P host <==> guest - OK
 - text DnD, C/P host <==> guest - OK
 - screen resize - OK

- apt upgrade - 316 upgraded - 13 new.
 - note: using nautilus version 3.36.3
 - files DnD, C/P host <==> guest - OK
 - text DnD, C/P host <==> guest - OK

21.04 - Hirsute - X11 desktop - Ubuntu on Xorg
=================================
- Installed and did updates since release - reboot
- Added pre-release updates.
- Installed 11.3.0 ( letting other updates/upgrades pending)
 - note: using nautilis version 3.38.2-1ubuntu2
 - files DnD, C/P host <==> guest - OK
 - text DnD, C/P host <==> guest - OK
 - screen resize - OK

- apt upgrade - 33 upgraded - 5 new.
 - note: using nautilis version 3.38.2-1ubuntu2
 - files DnD, C/P host <==> guest - OK
 - text DnD, C/P host <==> guest - OK

There are known problems with file drag and drop when using a Wayland Ubuntu desktop.

I have asked Yuhua Zou from the VMware GOS QA team to verify the install and vmtools commands on an ESXi server.

Ping @Yuhua - any progress?

It works well when do sanity check for open-vm-tools 11.3.0 from -proposed

1. Check in the following VMs
ubuntu 20.04 live server
ubuntu 20.04.3 desktop
ubuntu 21.04 cloud image
ubuntu 21.04 desktop

2. Check items:
1) install open-vm-tools 11.3.0
2) upgrade to open-vm-tools 11.3.0
3) install open-vm-tools-desktop 11.3.0 for ubuntu xx.xx desktop image
4) tools service and VGAuth service are running when install / upgrade open-vm-tools
5) tools service and VGAuth service are running after install / upgrade and reboot guestOS
uninstall open-vm-tools
6) check guestInfo when install/uninstall open-vm-tools

All the following items are passed:
1) install open-vm-tools 11.3.0
2) upgrade to open-vm-tools 11.3.0
3) install open-vm-tools-desktop 11.3.0 for ubuntu xx.xx desktop image
4) tools service and VGAuth service are running when install / upgrade open-vm-tools
5) tools service and VGAuth service are running after install / upgrade and reboot guestOS
   uninstall open-vm-tools
6) check guestInfo when install/uninstall open-vm-tools

Ok, I see the list is complete then - this matches what was done in the past.
Also John did verification on Workstation - thanks for that.
Thereby I think we can call it verified, thanks for your help!

This bug was fixed in the package open-vm-tools - 2:11.3.0-2ubuntu0~ubuntu21.04.1

---------------
open-vm-tools (2:11.3.0-2ubuntu0~ubuntu21.04.1) hirsute; urgency=medium

  * Update to latest release v11.3.0 (LP: #1933143)

open-vm-tools (2:11.3.0-2) experimental; urgency=medium

  * d/copyright: further fix licenses after consulting SPDX
  * d/copyright: state multi-license under one glob pattern
  * d/control: enable arm64 which is ready in 11.3.0
  * d/control: drop no more needed net-tools dependency

open-vm-tools (2:11.3.0-1) experimental; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version 11.3.0 (Closes: #990163)(LP: #1933143)
    - d/rules: install new binary vmwgfxctrl into open-vm-tools-desktop
    - d/rules: add new binary vmware-alias-import to open-vm-tools
    - d/rules: add new vmsvc plugins libguestStore.so and libgdp.so
      to open-vm-tools
  * d/open-vm-tools.maintscript: remove stale conffiles (Closes: #868273)
  * d/control: add myself to uploaders
  * Cleanups flagged by tracker.debian.org
    - d/watch: fix to work with upstreams github tags
    - d/control: bump Standards-Version to 4.5.1 (no changes needed)
  * Cleanups for various Lintian findings
    - d/source/lintian-overrides: allow helper scripts by setting
      patch-file-present-but-not-mentioned-in-series
    - d/{open-vm-tools,open-vm-tools-dev}.lintian-overrides tolerate
      package-name-doesnt-match-sonames
    - d/{open-vm-tools,open-vm-tools-desktop}.lintian-overrides: tolerate
      no-manual-page until upstream issue 526 is resolved
    - d/control: fix skip-systemd-native-flag-missing-pre-depends warning by
      adding misc:Pre-Depends
    - d/copyright: rename non allowed license names to fix
      space-in-std-shortname-in-dep5-copyright warning
    - d/open-vm-tools-desktop.lintian-overrides: fix setuid override
    - d/rules: drop no more needed handling of pam vmtoolsd-x64
    - d/rules: put libs and .pc files in correct multiarch directories
    - d/rules: do not ship vmware-vgauth-smoketest (only meant for build&test,
      per upstream it can wipe system config and therefore should not be
      shipped after build - upstream issue 527)
  * d/control: Remove constraints unnecessary since stretch (from Janitor)

 -- Christian Ehrhardt <email address hidden> Tue, 31 Aug 2021 12:00:49 +0200

The verification of the Stable Release Update for open-vm-tools has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

This bug was fixed in the package open-vm-tools - 2:11.3.0-2ubuntu0~ubuntu20.04.1

---------------
open-vm-tools (2:11.3.0-2ubuntu0~ubuntu20.04.1) focal; urgency=medium

  * Update to latest release v11.3.0 (LP: #1933143)
    Remaining changes:
    - Revert "build-depend on libgdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0-dev"
  * Dropped [ is in 11.3.0-2]
    - Revert "Add net-tools as dependency again." as we don't want to
      modify the focal seed/ISO content without a real issue behind it.

open-vm-tools (2:11.3.0-2) experimental; urgency=medium

  * d/copyright: further fix licenses after consulting SPDX
  * d/copyright: state multi-license under one glob pattern
  * d/control: enable arm64 which is ready in 11.3.0
  * d/control: drop no more needed net-tools dependency

open-vm-tools (2:11.3.0-1) experimental; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version 11.3.0 (Closes: #990163)(LP: #1933143)
    - d/rules: install new binary vmwgfxctrl into open-vm-tools-desktop
    - d/rules: add new binary vmware-alias-import to open-vm-tools
    - d/rules: add new vmsvc plugins libguestStore.so and libgdp.so
      to open-vm-tools
  * d/open-vm-tools.maintscript: remove stale conffiles (Closes: #868273)
  * d/control: add myself to uploaders
  * Cleanups flagged by tracker.debian.org
    - d/watch: fix to work with upstreams github tags
    - d/control: bump Standards-Version to 4.5.1 (no changes needed)
  * Cleanups for various Lintian findings
    - d/source/lintian-overrides: allow helper scripts by setting
      patch-file-present-but-not-mentioned-in-series
    - d/{open-vm-tools,open-vm-tools-dev}.lintian-overrides tolerate
      package-name-doesnt-match-sonames
    - d/{open-vm-tools,open-vm-tools-desktop}.lintian-overrides: tolerate
      no-manual-page until upstream issue 526 is resolved
    - d/control: fix skip-systemd-native-flag-missing-pre-depends warning by
      adding misc:Pre-Depends
    - d/copyright: rename non allowed license names to fix
      space-in-std-shortname-in-dep5-copyright warning
    - d/open-vm-tools-desktop.lintian-overrides: fix setuid override
    - d/rules: drop no more needed handling of pam vmtoolsd-x64
    - d/rules: put libs and .pc files in correct multiarch directories
    - d/rules: do not ship vmware-vgauth-smoketest (only meant for build&test,
      per upstream it can wipe system config and therefore should not be
      shipped after build - upstream issue 527)
  * d/control: Remove constraints unnecessary since stretch (from Janitor)

 -- Christian Ehrhardt <email address hidden> Tue, 31 Aug 2021 12:05:31 +0200