* Mon Dec 04 2023 Miroslav Rezanina <mrezanin@redhat.com> - 12.3.5-2

- ovt-Restart-tools-on-failure.patch [RHEL-15346]
- Resolves: RHEL-15346
  (Add Restart=on-failure to vmtoolsd.service)

open-vm-tools.spec

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 
 Name:             open-vm-tools
 Version:          %{toolsversion}
-Release:          1%{?dist}
+Release:          2%{?dist}
 Summary:          Open Virtual Machine Tools for virtual machines hosted on VMware
 License:          GPLv2
 URL:              https://github.com/vmware/%{name}
@@ -418,6 +418,11 @@ fi
 %{_bindir}/vmware-vgauth-smoketest
 
 %changelog
+* Mon Dec 04 2023 Miroslav Rezanina <mrezanin@redhat.com> - 12.3.5-2
+- ovt-Restart-tools-on-failure.patch [RHEL-15346]
+- Resolves: RHEL-15346
+  (Add Restart=on-failure to vmtoolsd.service)
+
 * Thu Nov 09 2023 Miroslav Rezanina <mrezanin@redhat.com> - 12.3.5-1
 - Rebase to 12.3.5-1 [RHEL-15058]
 - Fixed CVE-2023-34058 [RHEL-14653]

vmtoolsd.service

@@ -4,10 +4,13 @@ Documentation=https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools
 ConditionVirtualization=vmware
 Requires=vgauthd.service
 After=vgauthd.service
+StartLimitIntervalSec=30
+StartLimitBurst=3
 
 [Service]
 ExecStart=/usr/bin/vmtoolsd
 TimeoutStopSec=5
+Restart=on-failure
 
 [Install]
 WantedBy=multi-user.target