diff --git a/open-vm-tools.changes b/open-vm-tools.changes
index cef38c4..9b396ee 100644
--- a/open-vm-tools.changes
+++ b/open-vm-tools.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Jul 13 18:30:28 UTC 2016 - ken@suse.com
+
+- Fix vmtoolsd init script to run vmtoolsd in background. (bsc#971031)
+  + fix originally done in SLE-11-SP4 code base by tcech@suse.cz
+
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 Thu Jun 16 17:45:54 UTC 2016 - ken@suse.com
 
diff --git a/vmtoolsd b/vmtoolsd
index 47b13e4..0cfe80f 100644
--- a/vmtoolsd
+++ b/vmtoolsd
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ case "$1" in
 	modprobe $VMBALLOON
 	## Start daemon with startproc(8). If this fails
 	## the return value is set appropriately by startproc.
-	/sbin/startproc $VMTOOLSD_BIN
+	/sbin/startproc $VMTOOLSD_BIN -b /var/run/vmtoolsd.pid
 
 	# Remember status and be verbose
 	rc_status -v