Package: open-vm-tools
Version: 2008.10.10-123053-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Hi Daniel,

I found that the latest open-vm-tools does not work, at least with
vmware v6.5. Neither clipboard copy/paste, nor host-share mounting
work.

As posted in,
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user/339037/

I had been able to use Open VMware Tools to copy/paste x-selections
between VMware host and client via clipboard without any specify
setup in other distros before. But not now.

Also, host-share mounting does not work either.

 root:~# vmware-hgfsmounter .host:/ /mnt/hgfs/
 Error: cannot mount filesystem: No such device

 root:~# vmware-hgfsclient
 share

 root:~# vmware-hgfsmounter .host:/share /mnt/hgfs/
 Error: cannot mount filesystem: No such device

My VMware:

 $ vmware -v
 VMware Workstation 6.5.0 build-118166

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
 APT prefers testing
 APT policy: (300, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-grml (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages open-vm-tools depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.7-13     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdumbnet1                   1.8-1.5    A dumb, portable networking librar
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.3.2-1  GCC support library
ii  libicu38                      3.8.1-3    International Components for Unico
ii  libstdc++6                    4.3.2-1    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  procps                        1:3.2.7-8  /proc file system utilities

Versions of packages open-vm-tools recommends:
pn  ethtool                       <none>     (no description available)
pn  open-vm-source                <none>     (no description available)
pn  zerofree                      <none>     (no description available)

Versions of packages open-vm-tools suggests:
pn  open-vm-toolbox               <none>     (no description available)

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