Ben Pfaff wrote: > "Yann Dirson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Debian is not listed in the list of supported OS on the VMware >> website[1]. > [...] > > I asked my contact at VMware (a manager) about the situation. > The message I sent him was this: > >> It's recently come up on the Debian mailing lists that Debian >> is not listed as a supported guest OS. Do you have an idea who >> I should talk to about getting it added? The list of supported >> guest OSes is pretty long, so I imagine that it's really just >> an oversight, not a technical issue. > > Here is the answer that I received from him: > >> [...] I'm doubtful its purely an oversite. > >> We're responsible for testing and validating anything we claim to >> be supported, and my (admittedly dated) understanding with >> respect to Debian is that it morphs at a rate greater than we can >> adequately test, ?!? Everyone else complains that releases are too *slow*!...
>> and while I'm pretty sure we always test with >> Debian before releases, making the statement of official support >> is a higher bar that is impractical given the Debian release >> model. >> >> I may also be totally wrong though. > > There was a follow-up from the product manager for VMware > Workstation as well: > >> You're actually spot on. We just started supporting Ubuntu >> with WKS 5.5. > > These answers seem to assume that VMware would say that the > "unstable" release is supported. Our "stable" releases, on the > other hand, change very slowly. I could ask again, if anyone is > interested, about support for stable releases of Debian. That's what we would want, anyway. -- ksig --random| -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
