[Bug 1893898] Re: open-vm-tools status is toolsNotInstalled after deploy cloud image groovy-server-cloudimg-amd64.ova

[John Chittum]

I've confirmed the Focal change using the following test:

1. downloaded source for proposed package
2. used ubuntu-old-fashioned/scripts/ubuntu-bartender to run a build
3. used Virtualbox to load the ova and vmdk
4. ensured the ova and vmdk loaded, cloud-init loaded, systemd completed with no issues, and kernel was loaded
5. created a custom recipe with the proposed code from git(emulating our exact build process)
6. ran a livebuild from the uploaded recipe
7. downloaded the ova and vmdk
8. using Virtualbox, ensured the ova and vmdk loaded, cloud-init loaded, systemd completed with no issues, and kernel was loaded.
9 checked build logs for bartender and lp to ensure that a diff was generated for the 2 headers and that ddb.toolsVersion = "2147483647" was present in the diff presented in the log (example in #12)

LP builds have been a bit slow today for images and recipes.

For Xenial, I believe I have to wait for a fix in livecd-rootfs related
to a different change.


** Tags removed: verification-needed-focal
** Tags added: verification-done-focal

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Title:
  open-vm-tools status is toolsNotInstalled after deploy cloud image
  groovy-server-cloudimg-amd64.ova

Status in cloud-images:
  In Progress
Status in livecd-rootfs package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in open-vm-tools package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in livecd-rootfs source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed
Status in livecd-rootfs source package in Bionic:
  Fix Committed
Status in livecd-rootfs source package in Focal:
  Fix Committed
Status in livecd-rootfs source package in Groovy:
  Fix Released

Bug description:

  [Impact]

   * with groovy-server-cloudimg-amd64.ova daily build, when only deploy OVA and don't power on VM, the VMTools status is "toolsNotInstalled"
  But in fact, we have installed open-vm-tools.

  [Test Case]

   * build vmdk image and verify that buildlog now mentions emitting
  ddb.toolsVersion = "2147483647" field for the image. See
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-
  tools/+bug/1893898/comments/12

  [Regression Potential]

   * The change affects Vagrant / VMware ova/vmdk formatted images,
  which all use modify_vmdk_header function.

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