Hi all
I'm running esxi 5.5. I have templates set up for various OS's and those have vmware tools on them as a typical install. One of my colleagues decided to do complete installs of vmware tools, which installs the vsepflt filter which then hangs and blue screens the guest machine.
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=207730...
We went in and disabled it on all the affected vms, and everything is functioning now, but I have vmware tools set up to auto-update on reboot in an attempt to keep them semi up to date anyway. When this update happens it detects the complete install, re-installs the vsepflt filter and enables it again. Server then proceeds to bluescreen and hang. The KB article claims this was fixed in 5.5 U2, but that's just not true.
So, my questions is, can I fool the installer into thinking a typical install was done rather than a complete install by maybe a registry key change or something like that, rather than having to reinstall vmware tools using the typical install? It's about 80 machines, and rebooting them is a pain.
Thanks for any suggestions
Matt