>>> On 5/10/2010 at 15:43, Sean Dilda <s...@duke.edu> wrote: 
> This is nothing new.  From day one open-vm-tools has not been supported 
> by VMware.  What this means is that open-vm-tools doesn't go through 
> VMware's normal QA and release cycle, and thus if you call up to VMware 
> support with a problem with open-vm-tools, they won't help you.
> 
> However, VMware is funding the development of open-vm-tools, and taking 
> some (if not all) of the improvements made in open-vm-tools to help 
> improve the official VMware Tools offering.  In other words, 
> open-vm-tools is a open source development release, nothing more, 
> nothing less.

Yes, this is correct: the troublesome words in the statement is the more or 
less 'official' suggestion to remove the open-vm-tools from the
distribution. The support itself, well that is ok, and worked fine in the past.

Dominique

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