Download Patch ESX-1000070 for VMware ESX Server 3.0.1

Resolved Issues

This patch provides the following:

• This patch resolves time loss issue in Microsoft Windows 2000 SMP (multi-processor) virtual machines running applications that use the Windows Multimedia Timer service. Java applications typically fall into the category of applications that experience the time loss without this patch. The fix does not affect single-processor virtual machines.
• A fix for an issue where using the 32-bit version of VMware tools in a 64-bit Solaris 10 virtual machine causes high CPU usage. Users of this patch on ESX Server hosts with Solaris 10 virtual machines with 64-bit VMware tools will still experience an error stating "vmware-toolbox-gtk: 1816): Gtk-WARNING **" since no 64-bit GTK is available, but will not experience the high CPU usage. See http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6456279 for more information on Solaris 10 and the GTK for 64-bit applications.
• Pre-built modules (PBMs) to enable VMware tools to be installed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 3 AS 64-bit virtual machines. Without this patch, the error "None of the pre-built vmmemctl modules for VMwaretools are suitable for your running kernel." is seen when attempting to install VMware tools in RHEL 3 AS 64-bit virtual machines.
• Pre-built modules (PBMs) to enable VMware tools to be installed in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 8 Kernel v2.4.21-306 and higher virtual machines.

Applicability

This patch is for ESX Server 3.0.1 only. For the related patch for ESX 3.0.0, please see http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1000072

View KB 1000070 for more information on this patch.

Download Instructions

Download and verify the patch bundle as follows :

1. Download patch ESX-1000070 by clicking on the link above.
2. Log into the ESX Server service console as root.
3. Create a local depot directory.

   # mkdir -p /var/updates

   Note: VMware recommends that you use the updates directory.

4. Change your working directory to /var/updates.

   # cd /var/updates

5. Download the tar file into the /var/updates directory.
6. Verify the integrity of the downloaded tar file:

   # md5sum ESX-1000070.tgz

7. The md5 checksum output should match the following:

   56931d15ac3c186f80c1b20d855fa943 ESX-1000070.tgz

8. Extract the compressed tar archive:

   # tar -xvzf ESX-1000070.tgz

9. Change to the newly created directory, /var/updates/ESX-1000070:

   # cd ESX-1000070

Installation Instructions

Note: All virtual machines on the host must be either shut down or migrated using VMotion before applying the patch. No reboot of the ESX Server Host is required after applying this patch.

Once you have downloaded and extracted the archive, and if you are in the directory you created above, install the update using the following command:

# esxupdate update

If you want to run esxupdate from a different directory, you must specify the bundle path in the command:

# esxupdate -r file://<directory>/ESX-1000070 update

for example, if the host is called depot:

# esxupdate -r file:///depot/var/updates/ESX-1000070 update

During the update process, logs appear on the terminal. You can specify the verbosity of esxupdate logs by using the -v option as shown below.

# esxupdate -v 10 file://<directory>/ESX-1000070 update

for more information on using esxupdate, please refer to the Patch Management for ESX Server 3 tech note at http://www.vmware.com/pdf/esx3_esxupdate.pdf.