Re: Installing open-vm-tools in Debian Wheezy

[David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>]

Quoting Liam O'Toole (liam.p.otoole@gmail.com):
> The open-vm-tools package recomends open-vm-dkms. The package
> description for the latter is 'Source for VMware guest systems driver
> (DKMS)'. It seems that that will give you the source, packaged to work
> with DKMS.  Therefore the module(s) will automaticaly be recompiled on
> kernel upgrade.

Alternatively, purge and reinstall open-vm-dkms which should trigger
a recompilation. (That's a complete guess, based on the behaviour of
ndiswrapper under similar conditions.)

Cheers,
David.