Has anyone succeeded in running guest customizations with EL (RHEL or CentOS) 7.2 guests?
The system is VMware vCloud Director 5.6.5 and VMware ESXi 5.5.
v7.2 comes with open-vm-tools 9.10.2, which is supposed to include all necessary VMware Tools equivalents.
I have tried setting /etc/redhat-release to the 7.0 string. I have installed perl. I have not attempted to downgrade to older open-vm-tools + vmware-deployPkg because I would like to stick with 7.2 packages.
Here's some output...
[root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.0 (Maipo)
[root@localhost ~]# which perl
/usr/bin/perl
[root@localhost ~]# vmware-toolbox-cmd -v
9.10.2.48224 (build-2822639)
[root@localhost ~]# cat /var/log/vmware-imc/toolsDeployPkg.log
## Starting deploy pkg operation
Deploying /tmp/vmware-root/709d2d0c/cust93117962197543457.cab
Initializing deployment module.
Cleaning old state file from tmp directory.
EXIT STATE INPROGRESS
Setting deploy error: Error removing lock /tmp/.vmware-deploy.INPROGRESS (No such file or directory)
EXIT STATE Done
Setting deploy error: Error removing lock /tmp/.vmware-deploy.Done (No such file or directory)
EXIT STATE ERRORED
Setting deploy error: Error removing lock /tmp/.vmware-deploy.ERRORED (No such file or directory)
Setting deploy error: Success.
Deploying cabinet file /tmp/vmware-root/709d2d0c/cust93117962197543457.cab.
Transitioning from state (null) to state INPROGRESS.
ENTER STATE INPROGRESS
Reading cabinet file /tmp/vmware-root/709d2d0c/cust93117962197543457.cab.
Creating directory /tmp
Creating directory /tmp/.vmware
Creating directory /tmp/.vmware/linux
Creating directory /tmp/.vmware/linux/deploy
Extracting package files.
Launching deployment /usr/bin/perl -I/tmp/.vmware/linux/deploy/scripts /tmp/.vmware/linux/deploy/scripts/Customize.pl /tmp/.vmware/linux/deploy/cust.cfg.
Command to exec : /usr/bin/perl
sizeof ProcessInternal is 56
## Starting deploy pkg operation
Deploying /tmp/vmware-root/709d2d0c/cust93117962197543457.cab
Initializing deployment module.
Cleaning old state file from tmp directory.
EXIT STATE INPROGRESS
Setting deploy error: Error removing lock /tmp/.vmware-deploy.INPROGRESS (No such file or directory)
EXIT STATE Done
Setting deploy error: Error removing lock /tmp/.vmware-deploy.Done (No such file or directory)
EXIT STATE ERRORED
Setting deploy error: Error removing lock /tmp/.vmware-deploy.ERRORED (No such file or directory)
Setting deploy error: Success.
Deploying cabinet file /tmp/vmware-root/709d2d0c/cust93117962197543457.cab.
Transitioning from state (null) to state INPROGRESS.
ENTER STATE INPROGRESS
Reading cabinet file /tmp/vmware-root/709d2d0c/cust93117962197543457.cab.
Creating directory /tmp
Creating directory /tmp/.vmware
Creating directory /tmp/.vmware/linux
Creating directory /tmp/.vmware/linux/deploy
Extracting package files.
Launching deployment /usr/bin/perl -I/tmp/.vmware/linux/deploy/scripts /tmp/.vmware/linux/deploy/scripts/Customize.pl /tmp/.vmware/linux/deploy/cust.cfg.
Command to exec : /usr/bin/perl
sizeof ProcessInternal is 56
Returning, pending output from stdout
Returning, pending output from stderr
Process exited normally after 0 seconds, returned 127
No more output from stdout
No more output from stderr
Customization command output:
Customization process returned with error.
Deployment result = 127
Setting generic error status in vmx.
Transitioning from state INPROGRESS to state ERRORED.
ENTER STATE ERRORED
EXIT STATE INPROGRESS
Setting deploy error: Deployment failed. The forked off process returned error code.
Deployment failed. The forked off process returned error code.
No nics to enable.
Launching cleanup.
Command to exec : /bin/rm
sizeof ProcessInternal is 56
Returning, pending output from stdout
Returning, pending output from stderr
Process exited normally after 0 seconds, returned 0
No more output from stdout
No more output from stderr
Customization command output:
Deploy error: Deployment failed. The forked off process returned error code.
Package deploy failed in DeployPkg_DeployPackageFromFile
## Closing log
[root@localhost ~]#