Open-VM-Tools: Releases, patches & end-of-life
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Lifecycle guide for Open-VM-Tools from Red Hat

All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance

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📅 Last update on 2026-03-09

What is Open-VM-Tools?

Automate product release and end-of-life managementOpen-VM-Tools is a set of services and modules that enable several features in VMware products for better management of, and seamless user interactions with, guests. It includes kernel modules for enhancing the performance of virtual machines running Linux or other VMware supported Unix like guest operating systems.
 

The entire lifecycle of Open-VM-Tools

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of Open-VM-Tools. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.
Open-VM-Tools (Red Hat) release, version and end-of-life information
XOpen-VM-Tools (Red Hat) release, version and end-of-life information
Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product Open-VM-Tools (Red Hat)
 

Facts and figures about Open-VM-Tools

Product
Open-VM-Tools
Vendor
Red Hat
Latest version
0:12.4.0-2.el9
Number of releases
4
Number of versions
23
Number of unstable versions
0
Number of versions affected by CVE
0
Licence
GPL v2 and GPL v2 compatible licenses
 
 

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