ESX 4 CentOS Guest Showing Udev Unknown Key
July 11th, 2009
After installing VMware Tools on a CentOS 5.3 guest hosted on ESX 4 I was receiving the following udev warnings during startup.
Starting udev: udevd[572]: add_to_rules: unknown key 'SUBSYSTEMS' udevd[572]: add_to_rules: unknown key 'ATTRS{vendor}' udevd[572]: add_to_rules: unknown key 'ATTRS{model}' udevd[572]: add_to_rules: unknown key 'SUBSYSTEMS' udevd[572]: add_to_rules: unknown key 'ATTRS{vendor}' udevd[572]: add_to_rules: unknown key 'ATTRS{model}'
While they are harmless I personally find them annonying. The fix is to comment out the following udev rules for Debian and SuSE / Ubuntu in /etc/udev/rules.d/99-vmware-scsi-udev.rules. Your file should look like the following
# Redhat systems ACTION=="add", BUS=="scsi", SYSFS{vendor}=="VMware, " , SYSFS{model}=="VMware Virtual S", RUN+="/bin/sh -c 'echo 180 >/sys$DEVPATH/device/timeout'" # Debian systems #ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEMS=="scsi", ATTRS{vendor}=="VMware " , ATTRS{model}=="Virtual disk ", RUN+="/bin/sh -c 'echo 180 >/sys$DEVPATH/device/timeout'" # SuSE / Ubuntu systems #ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEMS=="scsi", ATTRS{vendor}=="VMware, " , ATTRS{model}=="VMware Virtual S", RUN+="/bin/sh -c 'echo 180 >/sys$DEVPATH/device/timeout'"