We noticed an issue today where servers running CentOS 7.6 show up in Vsphere (esx 6.5) as a Guest OS of CentOS 6
CentOS 7.5 servers are still showing up in Vsphere at CentOS 7 I took one and upgraded it to 7.6 and vsphere then showed CentOS 6 as the guest OS
anybody else experiencing this?
CentOS 7.6 / open-vm-tools reports CentOS 6 to vsphere
Re: CentOS 7.6 / open-vm-tools reports CentOS 6 to vsphere
I have the same problem with ESXi 6.5 U1, CentOS 7.6, is detected ad CentOS 6, I'm using open-vm-tools 10.2.5-3
Re: CentOS 7.6 / open-vm-tools reports CentOS 6 to vsphere
It's a bug in open-vm-tools which is apparently confused by the "6." in "7.6.1810" inside /etc/centos-release.
https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/issues/311
You can either wait for a fixed version of open-vm-tools - though that will come from Redhat so the bug also needs to be reported on bugzilla.redhat.com if it hasn't been already - or you can edit the contents of /etc/centos-release and change it so that it doesn't match any more. That file is owned by the centos-release package and is not marked as a config file so it will be replaced next time there is an update to the centos-release package.
https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/issues/311
You can either wait for a fixed version of open-vm-tools - though that will come from Redhat so the bug also needs to be reported on bugzilla.redhat.com if it hasn't been already - or you can edit the contents of /etc/centos-release and change it so that it doesn't match any more. That file is owned by the centos-release package and is not marked as a config file so it will be replaced next time there is an update to the centos-release package.
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
Use the FAQ Luke
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
Use the FAQ Luke
Re: CentOS 7.6 / open-vm-tools reports CentOS 6 to vsphere
I've filed a bug, feel free to add yourself to the Cc list to get progress notifications: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1672087