Package: open-vm-dkms Version: 2010.06.16-268169-3 Severity: grave Hi,
open-vm-dkms misses vmmemctl in the Squeeze. According to
debian/changelog it was removed with version 2010.06.16-268169-1 due to
* Updating packaging for upstreams vmmemctl module removal.
Looking into upstreams changelog it there states:
* vmmemctl: Linux driver removed (it's now upstream), plus
cleanup and simplification of the FreeBSD and Solaris drivers.
Digging through kernel git, it was added with 2.6.34, which is not part
of Debian Squeeze. This makes the package partly unsuable, as vmmemctl
is really needed. See [1] page 15, "Memory Reclamation" for more
details.
While #588356 fixes the obvious problem with the init script, the
correct fix would have been to load the newer upstream kernel driver if
available. Just uploading a newer upstream version of a package which
drops kernel modules which are provided by newer kernels not provided on
Debian systems is bad. I wonder if you ever tested that package before
uploading 2010.06.16-268169-1, as you would have found 588356 by
yourself. Also looking into which kernel upstream version a module has
been integrated would had been a good idea before uploading.
Please provide vmmemctl on Squeeze machines and/or work with the Kernel
Team to get that module backported to 2.6.32 for Squeeze.
Cheers,
Martin
[1] http://www.vmware.com/pdf/esx2_performance_implications.pdf
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