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Description of problem:

VMware has released the version 10.1.10 of open-vm-tools in July 2017 and has plans to release 10.1.15 in Sept 2017. We recommend rebasing of open-vm-tools to 10.1.10 or .15 in the next RHEL 7.5 update.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install and run RHEL in VMware VM, including open-vm-tools
2. Check open-vm-tools version (yum info open-vm-tools)

Additional info:
Ravindra will update open-vm-tools in Fedora soon.

Rebase deadline is 2017-10-23 -- which is the absolute deadline, ideally
we'd have the rebased package built and ready one or two weeks before.

FWIW,

Fedora has been updated to 10.1.10 - see https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/open-vm-tools/c/aef72f126682ca57574686751a0caf592e6632d2?branch=master.

We will update it to 10.1.15 when that becomes available.

I uploaded the package here in case anyone wants to test:

http://oirase.annexia.org/tmp/bz1475608-openvmtools/

Thanks Rich. We will inform our QA team as well.

Verified this bug.

ESXi host version: ESXi 6.5 / 6.0 /5.5
open-vm-tools-10.1.10-3.el7.x86_64

Verify steps:
1. Install RHEL7.5 gust on the VMware ESXi5.5 host.
2. Start the guest.
3. Check the open-vm-tools version.
4. Do sanity test for open-vm-tools.   

The test result: Verified
As this is a rebase open-vm-tools, so run some basic test such as install,uninstall open-vm-tools package;start, stop vmtoolsd service,and so on.
The detail test cases :
https://polarion.engineering.redhat.com/polarion/#/project/RedHatEnterpriseLinux7/testrun?id=ESXi6%2DU3%2DRHEL%2D75%2D20171130

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2018:0830