VMware guest customization error: 'Failed to set wall message, ignoring: Could not activate remote peer. Call to Reboot failed: Could not activate remote peer. '.

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • When deploying a new RHEL 9.4 VM in VMware using VMware's guest OS customization, the following error is logged:
[2024-11-06T15:45:34.273Z] [   error] Customization command failed with stderr: 'Failed to set wall message, ignoring: Could not activate remote peer.
Call to Reboot failed: Could not activate remote peer.
'.
  • The VM is rebooted as expected and the guest OS customization is fully applied.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.4
    • open-vm-tools-12.3.5-2.el9.x86_64
    • cloud-init-23.4-7.el9_4.6.noarch
    • perl-interpreter-5.32.1-481.el9.x86_64
  • VMware hypervisor

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