[Vmware-package-maintainers] Bug#438739: vmware-any-any-patch-113

[Benjamin E. Schallar]

Hi!

A "suggested fix"...

Would it be possible to create a post-inst script in the created 
vmware-{server|workstation|player} package setting the corrent value in 
/etc/modprobe.d/vmware ?

As those packages do depend on vmware-kernel-modules anyway, creating 
such a configfile sounds fine to me (but then again, I know little about 
packaging policies and I'm no DD ;-) ).

According to apt-cache show, vmware-package supports
> * VMware Workstation 6.0 (includes VMware Player).
> * VMware Player 2.0.
> * VMware Server 1.0.

According to modinfo vmmon the correct values would be
> parm:           vmversion:VMware version you use: 1=VMware 2, 2=GSX 1, 3=VMware 3, 4=VMware 3.2, 5=GSX 2, 6=GSX 2.5, 7=VMware 4, 8=VMware 3.2.1, 9=GSX 2.5.1, 10=VMware 4.5, 11=VMware 4.5.2, 12=GSX 3.2, 13=VMware 5.0, 14=VMware 5.5, 15=Server 1.0, 16=VMware 6.0, 17=TOT (int)

VMware Workstation 6, VMware Player 2:
options vmmon vmversion=16

VMware Server 1:
options vmmon vmversion=15

for the /etc/modprobe.d/vmware file to be created by post-inst.

Thank you!

Kind regards,
Benjamin