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 > > -- > Please backport open-vm-source (and -tools) from intrepid/debian sources > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/252663 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > 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. > -- Please backport open-vm-source (and -tools) from intrepid/debian sources https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/252663 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Backports Testing Team, which is subscribed to Hardy Backports. -- ubuntu-backports mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-backports
