Please backport open-vm-source (and -tools) from intrepid/debian sources
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Hardy Backports |
Won't Fix
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
The packages open-vm-tools and open-vm-source was pulled from Hardy because "it was not production-ready software".
However, this leaves a situation where you have to maintain vmware tools manually. This is not desireable or something that anyone wants to do manually over time. You will need to roll your own source packages to go with module assistant if you want to solve this by yourself on a larger scale.
Right now for running virtual servers on VMware ESX or VMware Server it is better to go with Debian Etch which has an actively maintained backport, rather than Hardy. We'd love to move to Hardy if this was sloved.
Using whats already there for Debian (and now also recently for Interpid) it should be possible to put together a backport.
This package could be very usefull for anyone, using VMWARE virtualization products. peterc. org/2008/ 62-how- to-install- vmware- tools-on- ubuntu- hardy-804- under-vmware- fusion. html
For users needed to have vmware-tools this howto may help http://