From: John Wolfe <jwolfe@vmware.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2022 20:01:14 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: Avoid a vmtoolsd service error message if not on a VMware hypervisor.
X-Git-Tag: stable-12.1.5~5
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0a5d9821a6a82ab773d41b7ae9afe9dc8cccff30;p=thirdparty%2Fopen-vm-tools.git

Avoid a vmtoolsd service error message if not on a VMware hypervisor.

When open-vm-tools comes preinstalled in a base Linux release, the
vmtoolsd services are started automatically at system start
and desktop login.  If running on physical hardware or in a non-VMware
hypervisor, the services will emit an error message to the systemd's
logging service before stopping.

This change removes the unwanted error message.
---

diff --git a/open-vm-tools/services/vmtoolsd/mainPosix.c b/open-vm-tools/services/vmtoolsd/mainPosix.c
index cd8f2dbee..9ca9badd5 100644
--- a/open-vm-tools/services/vmtoolsd/mainPosix.c
+++ b/open-vm-tools/services/vmtoolsd/mainPosix.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*********************************************************
- * Copyright (C) 2008-2020 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (C) 2008-2020,2022 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved.
  *
  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
  * under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published
@@ -178,8 +178,6 @@ main(int argc,
     * Check that environment is a VM
     */
    if (!VmCheck_IsVirtualWorld()) {
-      g_printerr("Error: %s must be run inside a virtual machine"
-                 " on a VMware hypervisor product.\n", argv[0]);
       goto exit;
    }