Fwd: Re: We need VMware packages for Fedora and Debian (was: C header files location)

[Joseph Kubik]

I don't know of any plans to support Debian.
Last time we tried (several years ago) the relationship did not work out well.

If the Debian community steering committee approaches our partner engineering 
group and started the relationship again I could see VMware adding support.

If you need a contact, I can try to find out who the host OS support partner 
contact is.

Cheers,
-Joseph-
On Thursday 14 December 2006 11:52, Jason Spiro wrote:
> Hi Joseph and Zach,
>
> How are you? I missed OLS this year because of a summer job, but I hope
> to see you again there next year. :-)
>
> Do either of you know: Do VMware have plans to package VMware Server for
> Debian Linux 3.1 ("sarge") and 4.0 ("etch") and for Ubuntu?
>
> (Based on my experience doing volunteer tech support on the Ubuntu IRC
> channel, I think packaging VMware for Debian/Ubuntu would:
>
> * increase your mindshare
> * improve your reputation as a producer of easy-to-install software
> * and, therefore, increase sales of VMware software and support.
>
> What do you think?)
>
> Regards,
> Jason Spiro
> Toronto, Canada
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: We need VMware packages for Fedora and Debian (was: C
> header files location)
> Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:21:04 +0100
> From: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages-ciUMMiFYEj8OIzVOb1FTxg at public.gmane.org>
> To: Jason Spiro <jasonspiro4-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
> CC: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org, Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages-ciUMMiFYEj8OIzVOb1FTxg at public.gmane.org>
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>
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 11:26:42PM -0500, Jason Spiro wrote:
> > Do VMware not ship packages for Fedora Core? I know they don't have
> > Debian packages. There's only a vmware-player package in Debian.
> >
> > I wish VMware was packaged for Debian. We should all write to VMware and
> > suggest it. Anyone know the proper email address is?
> >
> > By the way, Marc Haber has kindly created a Debian package (in contrib)
> > called vmware-package. Description follows. Marc, perhaps you know: do
> > VMware have any plans for creating real Debian packages for VMware
> > Server?
>
> No idea. Vmware is playing a rather closed shop. Especially using
> vmware-any-any has shown to be a communication killer.
>
> > "This package provides the capability to create Debian packages for
> > various VMware products and related software by obtaining VMware
> > tarballs and then just running make-vmpkg.
> >
> > It can currently build Debian packages for the following VMware and
> > VMware related products:
> >
> >    * VMware kernel modules for Linux, using the vmware-any-any tarball
> >
> > It is planned to extend make-vmkg to build Debian packages for the
> > following VMware products:
> >
> >    * VMware Player 1.0.2
>
> The package that is currently in Debian can already do this.
>
> Please note that the kernel modules are specific to the Kernel _AND_
> to the vmware userspace application, so if we extend vmware-package to
> VMware Server, we'd need to extend the build process to build
> vmware-any-any-player and vmware-any-any-server module sources.
> Somebody with deeper make(1) knowledge than me is needed to do this.
>
> Greetings
> Marc
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