Source: open-vm-tools Severity: wishlist The GuestStore and Guest Data Publisher plugins (libguestStore.so and libgdb.so respectively) are not being installed, but upstream intends them to be included with the open-vm-tools package, as they're part of the vmtoolsd service process.
This is also reported to Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1992501 -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers focal-updates APT policy: (500, 'focal-updates'), (500, 'focal-security'), (500, 'focal'), (100, 'focal-backports') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-125-generic (SMP w/12 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled