Timezone customization fails to work for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host
Article ID: 320032
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Issue/Introduction
Symptoms:
When you use "Customize guest OS" option in vCenter to customize a RHEL Atomic Host VM, the timezone is not customized as expected. Customization failure event could be found in vCenter event log.
When you use "Customize guest OS" option in vCenter to customize a RHEL Atomic Host VM, the timezone is not customized as expected. Customization failure event could be found in vCenter event log.
Cause
VMware customization process needs to modify the “/etc/localtime” link to the actual timezone file user wanted to customize. While on RHEL Atomic Host VM, the open-vm-tools is running inside container so it has to modify “/host/etc/localtime” link instead.
Resolution
This issue is resolved in vCenter Server 6.5 U1, available at VMware Downloads.
This issue is resolved in vCenter Server 6.0 U3c,available at VMware Downloads.
To work around this issue, file a Support Request with VMware Technical Support and specify this Knowledge Base article ID (2149854) in the problem description.
To contact VMware support, see Filing a Support Request in Customer Connect (2006985) or How to Submit a Support Request.
Additional Information
Impact/Risks:
Only RHEL Atomic Host VMs are affected, other RHEL versions are not affected.
Only RHEL Atomic Host VMs are affected, other RHEL versions are not affected.
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