Installation of RHEV Guest Tools in Windows guest fails

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • When installing the RHV Guest Tools package it fails with:
Installation of RHEV-Tools on the Guest should be performed only
when running on RHEL 6 type host (RHEV-H or RHEL). Installation
aborted.

Environment

  • Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) 4.x
  • rhev-guest-tools-iso-4.3-10
  • Windows Guests

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