No Debian / Ubuntu Support In The Future

[mikelane]

http://virtualization.info/en/news/2010/07/vmware-to-change-the-vsphere-architecture-significantly.h...

While VMware will continue to offer guest OS customization for Red Hat RHEL and Novell SLES distributions, Ubuntu and Debian Linux will not be supported anymore.

Does anyone have any insight to the rational for this decision?

I guess I will have to move to CentOS

[vmroyale · Accepted solution]

Hello.

My interpretation of the info contained in the release notes for 4.1 is that guest customization will no longer be supported. This is far different than those Linux distros not being a supported OS to run in the vSphere 4.1 environment. This appears to be only be around guest customization.

Good Luck!

[mikelane]

Gotcha, thanks for the clarification

[DSTAVERT]

Debian and Ubuntu also include open-vm-tools support which is what VMware had intended when they released source code for the VMware tools.