Parlous state of open-vm-tools packages in Debian

2011-08-27 Thread dj_palindrome
I'm resorting to this venue only because the Debian package maintainers of open-vm-tools do not even classify their own bug reports, much less actually respond to them, much less actually produce a package based on anything later than 8.4.2, even for non-stable release branches. The obvious con

Re: using shared folders on Ubuntu guest

2011-07-06 Thread dj_palindrome
Ashish Agarwal gmail.com> writes: > > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 1:17 AM, Lukas Ruf rawip.org> wrote: > > > I also had to manually do `mount -a`, since I keep > > getting an error on boot up about not being able to mount /mnt/hgfs. Anyone > > know how to avoid this on boot up?  > Try changing '..