Bug 811301

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I installed openSUSE 12.3 x86_64 in VMWare Player and found that most of the VM tools modules don't work.
The distribution comes with open-vm-tools 9.2.0 which apparently is intended to work with Linux 3.7. However it doesn't:
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2013-03-15T09:32:04.454635+02:00 linux vmtoolsd[34925]: Starting vmtoolsd FATAL: Module vmblock not found.
2013-03-15T09:32:04.458165+02:00 linux vmtoolsd[34925]: mount: mount point /proc/fs/vmblock/mountPoint does not exist
2013-03-15T09:32:04.465696+02:00 linux vmtoolsd[34925]: FATAL: Module vmsync not found.
2013-03-15T09:32:05.052567+02:00 linux vmtoolsd[34925]: ..done
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At the moment the latest VMWare player offers VMWare-tools 9.2.3. I installed it and everything worked. However this replaced the original packages which is not what I want. I want to use packages that are provided only by the official openSUSE repositories.
So the question is when can we expect to have open-vm-tools (newer than 9.2.0 or more importantly working with openSUSE 12.3) officially available?
I can see that open-vm-tools 9.2.2 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/open-vm-tools/files/open-vm-tools/stable-9.2.x/open-vm-tools-9.2.2-893683.tar.gz/download) has been available for months.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install openSUSE 12.3 x86_64 in VMWare Player 5.0.2 build-1031769
2. Try to use any of the functionality offered by open-vm-tools such as clipboard integration with the host OS or automatic screen re-size
3. Observe that clipboard integration with the host OS and automatic screen re-size do not work
4. Observe errors when vmtoolsd is being started:
2013-03-15T09:32:04.454635+02:00 linux vmtoolsd[34925]: Starting vmtoolsd FATAL: Module vmblock not found.
2013-03-15T09:32:04.458165+02:00 linux vmtoolsd[34925]: mount: mount point /proc/fs/vmblock/mountPoint does not exist
2013-03-15T09:32:04.465696+02:00 linux vmtoolsd[34925]: FATAL: Module vmsync not found.
2013-03-15T09:32:05.052567+02:00 linux vmtoolsd[34925]: ..done
Actual Results:  
None of the open-vm-tools functionality works.

Expected Results:  
Full integration with the host OS provided by open-vm-tools.

I used the Xfce desktop.