I also could not get the visual affects to work under VM 6.5.0. I'm disappointed because that's what I thought that 6.5.0 was supposed to do. The video driver that matters is the virtual one in the guest, not necessarily the host driver. My understanding is that if the host supports 3D effects, so should the guest once Tools is installed. I'm not finding that to be the case here.

Given that the 3D effects don't work and that vsock won't install, I have declined to update Tools on all but one of my Ubuntu VMs. I hope that we get a fix or workaround soon.

I received the same X.org error message. It could be that the new version of X.org in Intrepid isn't supported well, although the basic display works fine. That wouldn't surprise me given what we've already seen with vsock.

It is up to VMWare to update their Tools for new operating systems and kernels. However, there is an open source group that updates Tools much quicker than VMWare. You can find their package at http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/ . Unfortunately, they have not addressed this issue yet. My guess is that this is a core upgrade script issue rather than a specific vsock driver issue.

I'd like to get it fixed ASAP as well, but I'm not holding my breath. About 90% of the fixes to VMWare products come from workarounds developed in the community.

• no resolution change on windows rescaling,
• no mouse sharing (have to activate the vmware windows with one click),
• no drag'n'drop file copying between guest and host...

Thank you for your comment. Any words from around the office? I would guess that not many people are standing in line to test 8.04 LTS, but a lot of us are desperately trying to test 8.10 configurations in virtual machines. The VMWare Tools installation simply seems like a script fix for header file locations, but I could be wrong. There's already a proposed fix to vmmouse in the intrepid-proposed repository that VMWare could use.

Thanks again for your time here.

Thank you for your response and suggestion. I did make the feature request. I hope that others do as well. I added the suggestion to my blog as well.

FWIW, 8.10 will never have an LTS, because LTS goes with versions, not builds. LTS versions are only published about every 2 years, I believe. The last LTS before 8.04 was 6.06. The next LTS after 8.04 LTS should be 10.04 if the release schedules don't change. I hope that you don't wait that long to upgrade your setup.

Thanks again for your insight.

Bob

Beside the vmmouse issue, vsock will not compile in an Ubuntu 8.10 guest. That's the major issue. I already have the vmmouse fix loaded and it works fine. But, without vsock, there's apparently no cut-and-paste between the host and guest, nor drag-and-drop. There is also the incompatibility with X.org 7.4.2, which also causes VMTools install to fail. Those are major shortfalls in capability, and they are noted in the thread which you link in your message. If you are, as you assert, the open source tools group, then the vsock and X.org 7.4.2 issues must be addressed ASAP. They are not fixed in the open source package, either.

Thanks,

Bob

but I am really really disapointed. Seeing that vmware-tools still hang on a major release of one the most popular linux distro, and knowing that

that it was disponible in release candidate way before the final release, kind of blow.

You might think that they are working on it, but I tough they were allready working on it before the final release of Ubuntu. Does anyone have any official statement on vmware-tool / ubuntu 8.10 issue ?