"Yann Dirson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Debian is not listed in the list of supported OS on the VMware website[1]. [...]
I asked my contact at VMware (a manager) about the situation. The message I sent him was this: > It's recently come up on the Debian mailing lists that Debian > is not listed as a supported guest OS. Do you have an idea who > I should talk to about getting it added? The list of supported > guest OSes is pretty long, so I imagine that it's really just > an oversight, not a technical issue. Here is the answer that I received from him: > [...] I'm doubtful its purely an oversite. > We're responsible for testing and validating anything we claim to > be supported, and my (admittedly dated) understanding with > respect to Debian is that it morphs at a rate greater than we can > adequately test, and while I'm pretty sure we always test with > Debian before releases, making the statement of official support > is a higher bar that is impractical given the Debian release > model. > > I may also be totally wrong though. There was a follow-up from the product manager for VMware Workstation as well: > You're actually spot on. We just started supporting Ubuntu > with WKS 5.5. These answers seem to assume that VMware would say that the "unstable" release is supported. Our "stable" releases, on the other hand, change very slowly. I could ask again, if anyone is interested, about support for stable releases of Debian. -- Ben Pfaff email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://benpfaff.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
