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and subject line Bug#606327: fixed in open-vm-tools 1:8.4.2-261024-1
has caused the Debian Bug report #606327,
regarding vmmemctl missing in squeeze
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Package: open-vm-dkms
Version: 2010.06.16-268169-3
Severity: grave
Hi,
open-vm-dkms misses vmmemctl in the Squeeze. According to
debian/changelog it was removed with version 2010.06.16-268169-1 due to
* Updating packaging for upstreams vmmemctl module removal.
Looking into upstreams changelog it there states:
* vmmemctl: Linux driver removed (it's now upstream), plus
cleanup and simplification of the FreeBSD and Solaris drivers.
Digging through kernel git, it was added with 2.6.34, which is not part
of Debian Squeeze. This makes the package partly unsuable, as vmmemctl
is really needed. See [1] page 15, "Memory Reclamation" for more
details.
While #588356 fixes the obvious problem with the init script, the
correct fix would have been to load the newer upstream kernel driver if
available. Just uploading a newer upstream version of a package which
drops kernel modules which are provided by newer kernels not provided on
Debian systems is bad. I wonder if you ever tested that package before
uploading 2010.06.16-268169-1, as you would have found 588356 by
yourself. Also looking into which kernel upstream version a module has
been integrated would had been a good idea before uploading.
Please provide vmmemctl on Squeeze machines and/or work with the Kernel
Team to get that module backported to 2.6.32 for Squeeze.
Cheers,
Martin
[1] http://www.vmware.com/pdf/esx2_performance_implications.pdf
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Source: open-vm-tools
Source-Version: 1:8.4.2-261024-1
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
open-vm-tools, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
open-vm-source_8.4.2-261024-1_all.deb
to contrib/o/open-vm-tools/open-vm-source_8.4.2-261024-1_all.deb
open-vm-toolbox_8.4.2-261024-1_i386.deb
to contrib/o/open-vm-tools/open-vm-toolbox_8.4.2-261024-1_i386.deb
open-vm-tools-dbg_8.4.2-261024-1_i386.deb
to contrib/o/open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools-dbg_8.4.2-261024-1_i386.deb
open-vm-tools_8.4.2-261024-1.diff.gz
to contrib/o/open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools_8.4.2-261024-1.diff.gz
open-vm-tools_8.4.2-261024-1.dsc
to contrib/o/open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools_8.4.2-261024-1.dsc
open-vm-tools_8.4.2-261024-1_i386.deb
to contrib/o/open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools_8.4.2-261024-1_i386.deb
open-vm-tools_8.4.2-261024.orig.tar.gz
to contrib/o/open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools_8.4.2-261024.orig.tar.gz
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
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Daniel Baumann <[email protected]> (supplier of updated open-vm-tools package)
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Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 01:08:45 +0100
Source: open-vm-tools
Binary: open-vm-tools open-vm-toolbox open-vm-tools-dbg open-vm-source
Architecture: source i386 all
Version: 1:8.4.2-261024-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian VMware Maintainers <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Daniel Baumann <[email protected]>
Description:
open-vm-source - Source for VMware guest systems driver
open-vm-toolbox - tools and components for VMware guest systems (GUI tools)
open-vm-tools - tools and components for VMware guest systems (CLI tools)
open-vm-tools-dbg - tools and components for VMware guest systems (debug)
Closes: 606327
Changes:
open-vm-tools (1:8.4.2-261024-1) unstable; urgency=low
.
* Merging upstream version 8.4.2-261024.
* Re-enabling vmmemctl (Closes: #606327).
* Re-enabling pvscsi.
* Re-enabling vmxnet3.
* Rediffing kvers.patch.
* Updating modules to standards version 3.9.1.
* Removing dkms package, doesn't work with 8.4.2 yet.
* Excluding plugins from shlibdeps.
* Setting rpath for plugins.
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