Hi again, things have changed - thanks VMware - and I'd be happy to support whatever is needed to make d-i install open-vm-tools when being run in a VMware environment.
Regarding the suggested extra binary I'm wondering if dmidecode wouldn't be appropriate to handle the detection of a virtualized environment as dmidecode is shipping an udeb anyway. Best regards, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de http://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F