Given that there are 4 people listed as affected, marking Confirmed. It sounds to me like maybe upstream changed something and there may need to be a backport of those changes into open-vm-tools.
** Changed in: open-vm-tools (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed ** Changed in: open-vm-tools (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/611644 Title: Snapshot with quiesce option fails and kills VM on ESXi 4.1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/611644/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs