Open-vm-tools < 12.1.5 = problem with vcenter and cloud-init

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We are using cloud-init in perl mode as described in KB Solution 1 VMware Knowledge Base
The vSphere environment is in version 7 Update 3 (7.0.3.00700) and the problem appeared since we switched to this version.

The cloud-init problem is present on all our AlmaLinux 8 platforms (8.6), and therefore we would like to benefit from this version of the tools for the mentioned versions.

is it planned or is there a beta version of the open-vm-tools package in version 12.1.5 available, I can’t find any for Almalinux in this version?

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looks like its heading for 8.8 and 9.2 betas:

3

is it possible to have a minimum beta version of this package for versions prior to 8.7?

I see that centos Stream8 offers this beta for these bone versions.

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you could just rebuild the fc38 SRPM:

https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=2122549

you need to enable the devel repo to get procps-devel

i also managed to rebuild the beta for 8.7 using mock but its a bit complicated.