RE: Running (3rd Party/Independent) - way to update this?

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Alyson,

There are no conf file changes required for open-vm-tools. Setting the configuration you have mentioned will confuse the host. So, it is not a good idea. We are working on fixing "3rd Party/Independent".  In fact, your should see a different status if you run vSphere 6.0.

Thanks,
Ravindra

From: Alyson Whitaker [mailto:Aly...@me...]
Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2015 1:18 PM
To: ope...@li...
Subject: Running (3rd Party/Independent) - way to update this?

I have been installing the official vmware-tools rpm on all of my RHEL6 servers, and then updating /etc/vmware-tools/tools.conf from true to false:
sed -i 's/disable-tools-version=true/disable-tools-version=false/g' /etc/vmware-tools/tools.conf

This then shows that vmware-tools is running and updated inside of my vcenter console.

For RHEL7 however, we are now being asked to use open-vm-tools, which is perfectly fine and works well.  Is there a conf file I can update that will remove the 3rd Party/Independent from the VM console?  Is it as simple as adding a tools.conf file?
[vmtools]
disable-tools-version=false

Look forward to hearing from you

Alyson Whitaker
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