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The ESX 7.0.3 supports RHEL9 guest os id. The 12293(12.0.5) open-vm-tools you are using has the commit John fixed for rhel9 guestFamily commit 342fd81a270bf36c79baec5bb928a9a979e95af2 Author: John Wolfe Date: Fri Nov...

OK. I could reproduce your issue with my own setup. Checked our internal bug records and there is a bug to detect RHEL9 guest correctly in ESX side rather than...

For linux guest, we do not record the origin and status info for the nicinfo. https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/master/open-vm-tools/lib/nicInfo/nicInfoPosix.c#L641 https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/master/open-vm-tools/lib/nicInfo/nicInfo.c#L440 According for the current guest info api design, these two fields are optional....

Please follow the following KB to enable debug log: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1007873 And this KB to collect the logs: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2032614 Please also check if the open-vm-tools service is up and running

unfortunately we do not have automated suite to test for GUI copy/paste between host/guest. I'll try to reproduce this issue at my side and open bug in our engineering team...

We've set the log file permission to 600 here for security concern https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/master/open-vm-tools/lib/glibUtils/fileLogger.c#L331 For security hardening, mode 600 should be more secure than 640. If it is not convenient for...

After evaluation, we think 600 is normal practice for log files may contain sensitive data. So we will not change the 600 file permission setting for log files

vmware-toolbox-cmd needs to handle various functions such as config, send rpc command, timesync etc, which needs to be adapted for different distros. However, for the simple version(-v) and help( -h)...

I have raised bug report internally. Will evaluate the change needed in open-vm-tools makefile and update here when there is progress.