Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> (2025-07-15):
> On Tue, 15 Jul 2025 at 18:27:46 +0000, David Kennedy wrote:
> > I am finding that it is consistently easy to crash [a VMWare VM] just
> > doing Ctrl-C many time
>
> Does this VM have some sort of VMware "guest agent" installed, like a VMware
> equivalent of the functionality of qemu-guest-agent and
> virtualbox-guest-x11? Those components sometimes intercept copy/paste in
> order to synchronize the clipboard inside and outside the VM.
>
> If yes, then this sounds like a problem with that component: please report
> it to your VMware support contact, or whoever provided that component to
> you. It is possible that it is not compatible with some updated component
> found in trixie.
>
> > > VMware tools is installed also.
>
> I don't know exactly what this is, but it sounds like it might be the VMware
> equivalent of what I decribed. There doesn't seem to be a component of that
> name in Debian, so presumably you must have got it from somewhere else.
>
> Debian generally cannot provide support for third-party software.
Seen in hw-detect's hw-detect.finish-install.d/08hw-detect:
case "$(detect_virt)" in
vmware)
if detect_desktop; then
apt-install --with-recommends open-vm-tools-desktop || true
else
apt-install --with-recommends open-vm-tools || true
fi
;;
The description seems to match what you had in mind (except for the name).
Cheers,
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D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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