I was not aware of that before.  The date on the page states the middle of
December.  How long has this been available?

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:38 PM, Rouben <[email protected]> wrote:

> FYI, VMware does provide packages and even apt repositories with
> precompiled versions of both kernel modules and VMware Tools for Ubuntu
> 8.04 and 8.04.1 for ESX version 3.5:
>
> http://www.vmware.com/download/packages.html
>
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> Please backport open-vm-source (and -tools) from intrepid/debian sources
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/252663
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>
> Status in Hardy Heron Backports: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> The packages open-vm-tools and open-vm-source was pulled from Hardy because
> "it was not production-ready software".
>
> However, this leaves a situation where you have to maintain vmware tools
> manually. This is not desireable or something that anyone wants to do
> manually over time. You will need to roll your own source packages to go
> with module assistant if you want to solve this by yourself on a larger
> scale.
>
> Right now for running virtual servers on VMware ESX or VMware Server it is
> better to go with Debian Etch which has an actively maintained backport,
> rather than Hardy. We'd love to move to Hardy if this was sloved.
>
> Using whats already there for Debian (and now also recently for Interpid)
> it should be possible to put together a backport.
>

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