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VMware ESX 4.1 Patch ESX410-201010405-BG: Updates VMware Tools (1027017)

Details

Release date: November 15, 2010

Patch Classification Critical
Build For build information, see KB 1027027.
Host Reboot Required No
Virtual Machine Migration or Shutdown Required No
PRs Fixed 557226
Affected Hardware N/A
Affected Software N/A
VIBs Included vmware-esx-tools
Related CVE numbers N/A


 

Solution

Summaries and Symptoms

This patch removes certain deprecated VMware Tools Upgrade scenarios.

Known Issue

When you run the vmware-install.pl command with -d/--default option at the command prompt of a Linux virtual machine, the virtual machine displays the following error message:
Use of uninitialized value $gOption{"nested"} in numeric ne (!=) at ./vmware-install.pl line <n>.
Where <n> is the line number.
Workaround
If you want to continue installing VMware Tools with the default options, you can ignore this error message.
If you want to customize the installing process of VMware Tools using any other options, like --prefix, you must perform the following steps before running the vmware-install.pl command.
  1. Extract VMwareTools-4.1.0-<build number>.tar.gz file.
  2. Delete the following lines from the vmware-install.pl file:
    if ($gOption{'default'}) {
    # If given --default, flush all other options.
    %gOption = ('default' => 1 );
    }
  3. Save and close the file.
Or you can replace the vmware-install.pl file on your machine with the file attached to this KB article.
The vmware-install.pl file details:
  • MD5sum: c2a349a4e7c0954414dd873a239a3e11
  • Sha1sum: dea313a7ee7716cbd28657e043ac8c0ce10e1405
Note
  • This issue does not affect manual or automatic upgrade of the VMware Tools.
  • This issue does not affect the manual installing of the VMware Tools without the -d/--default options.

Deployment Considerations

Replace the vmware-install.pl file on your machine with the file attached to this KB article.

Patch Download and Installation

See the VMware vCenter Update Manager Administration Guide for instructions on using Update Manager to download and install patches to automatically update ESX 4.1 hosts.

To update ESX 4.1 hosts without using Update Manager, download the patch ZIP file from http://support.vmware.com/selfsupport/download/ and install the bulletin by using esxupdate from the command line of the host. For more information, see the ESX 4 Patch Management Guide.

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