[ESXi] Uninstallation of open-vm-tools should inform VMware platform

[vmware-gos-qa]

Uninstalling open-vm-tools leaves VMware platform assuming that open-vm-tools are still installed in the guest. VMware platform supports an RPC call to receive notification for open-vm-tools uninstallation. Uninstaller should make use of this RPC to notify the VMware platform that open-vm-tools has been uninstalled.

A similar issue was fixed in Fedora http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/open-vm-tools.git/commit/?id=17141dd91c321fc41f7d1874d64e8ea7d055fcc9.

Reproduced this using Ubuntu14.04:

Steps:
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1.Install Ubuntu14.04 vm and then open-vm-tools.
apt-get install open-vm-tools
2.Uninstall open-vm-tools using package manager by following commands:
apt-get remove open-vm-tools
apt-get purge open-vm-tools
3.Reboot VM.

Result:
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Get result:
"Not running, version:2147483647 (3rd-party/Independent)"

Guest information:
(vim.vm.GuestInfo) {
   toolsStatus = "toolsNotRunning",
   toolsVersionStatus = "guestToolsUnmanaged",
   toolsVersionStatus2 = "guestToolsUnmanaged",
   toolsRunningStatus = "guestToolsNotRunning",
   toolsVersion = "2147483647",
   toolsUpdateStatus = (vim.vm.GuestInfo.ToolsUpdateStatus) {
      updateRequireReboot = <unset>,
   },
   guestId = <unset>,
   guestFamily = <unset>,
   guestFullName = <unset>,
   hostName = <unset>,
   ipAddress = <unset>,
   screen = (vim.vm.GuestInfo.ScreenInfo) {
      width = 800,
      height = 600
   },
   guestState = "notRunning",
   powerPolicy = (vim.vm.PowerPolicy) null,
   appHeartbeatStatus = "appStatusGray",
   appState = "none",
   guestOperationsReady = false,
   interactiveGuestOperationsReady = false,
}

[Bo Dang (bdang)]

Does anybody take a look for this bug ? Looks similar bugs have been fixed from Redhat and SUSE already. Thanks in advance!

Best Regards,
Bo

[Ravindra Kumar (ravindrakumar)]

Could someone please take care of this bug? The fix is easy and can be inherited from the fix we provided in Fedora. Could you please let us know if you need any help in getting this fixed? Thanks!

[John Savanyo (jsavanyo)]

Ping.

[Patricia Gaughen (gaughen)]

Pong. Will review and have it scheduled.

[Ravindra Kumar (ravindrakumar)]

Please refer the fix I made for Fedora http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/open-vm-tools.git/commit/?id=17141dd91c321fc41f7d1874d64e8ea7d055fcc9.

It is a simple packaging step to be done in your pre-uninstall step. Could you please look into it?

[vmware-gos-Yuhua (yhzou)]

This issue exist since Ubuntu 14.04. Does anyone pay attention to it ?

[vmware-gos-Yuhua (yhzou)]

The problem still exist on Ubuntu 14.04, 15.04, 15.10 and 16.04. Please get it fixed. Thanks.

[vmware-gos-Yuhua (yhzou)]

this issue is fixed in ubuntu16.10-beta2.

best regards
Yuhua Zou

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

Hi,
this is hanging around for way too long.
I found it by checking old dormant bugs while taking a loot at the upcoming open-vm-tools backports.

The old link https://src.fedoraproject.org/cgit/open-vm-tools.git/commit/?id=17141dd91c321fc41f7d1874d64e8ea7d055fcc9 is dead by now unfortunately.

I assume you meant like line 154 in https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/open-vm-tools/c/17141dd91c321fc41f7d1874d6

Fixed for a long time already in Ubuntu by:
open-vm-tools (2:10.0.7-3227872-3) unstable; urgency=medium
.
  * [5060f42] Notify vmware when removing open-vm-tools.
    Thanks to Yanhui He (Closes: #825810)