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An open-vm-tools bug fix and enhancement update has been released for Oracle Linux 7.



El-errata: ELEA-2021-0866 Oracle Linux 7 open-vm-tools bug fix and enhancement update


Oracle Linux Enhancement Advisory ELEA-2021-0866

  http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELEA-2021-0866.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 7 have been uploaded to the
Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
open-vm-tools-11.0.5-3.0.1.el7_9.2.x86_64.rpm
open-vm-tools-desktop-11.0.5-3.0.1.el7_9.2.x86_64.rpm
open-vm-tools-devel-11.0.5-3.0.1.el7_9.2.x86_64.rpm
open-vm-tools-test-11.0.5-3.0.1.el7_9.2.x86_64.rpm

SRPMS:
  http://oss.oracle.com/ol7/SRPMS-updates/open-vm-tools-11.0.5-3.0.1.el7_9.2.src.rpm


Description of changes:

[11.0.5-3.0.1]
- fix spaces in vmware udev rule for scsi devices
[Orabug: 24461968]
- Fix vmware udev rule in 99-vmware-scsi-timeout.rules file.
[Orabug: 22815019]
- Increase timeout for scsi devices on VMWare guests by adding a udev rule.
- Created a new file 99-vmware-scsi-timeout.rules
- Modified spec file to install this new file.
[Orabug: 21819156]

[11.0.5-3.el7_9.2]
- ovt-Rectify-a-log-spew-in-vmsvc-logging-vmware-vmsvc-roo.patch
[bz#1911853]
- Resolves: bz#1911853
([ESXi][RHEL7.9][ warning] [guestinfo] GuestInfoGetDiskDevice: Missing
disk device name; VMDK mapping unavailable for "/", fsName: "/dev/sda2")