After installing VMware Tools on a CentOS or RHEL guest hosted on ESX-Server receiving the following udev warnings:
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}’
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.
# 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'”