vmtoolsd provided by open-vm-tools logs error “GuestInfoSendNicInfoXdr: update failed”

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Issue

  • vmtoolsd outputs the following error:
GuestInfoSendNicInfoXdr: update failed: request "SetGuestInfo  10 ", reply "Invalid guest information type.".

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • open-vm-tools

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