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I have given up on waiting for VMWare Tools to catch up and switched to VirtualBox from Sun. http://www.virtualbox.com

Unless there is some strange functionality you need from VMWare that isn't supported in VirtualBox, I suggest giving it a try.

FTFY

And the Virtualbox repository is ready with 3.10 for Koala.

You do have to re-enable the source manually - it's not deleted, but the 9.04 -> 9.10 upgrade process turns off third party sources as a precaution.

Just finished upgrading an AMD quad core box, smooth sailing.

You can usually update the tools by using parts of openvmtools.

Works fine for me under Fusion 3.

I think he meant using VMWare Tools on Ubuntu

As opposed to running Ubuntu under VMWare

Tools runs on the guest OS to provide better mouse/graphics/etc integration. Typically it gets broken with new kernels.

I am still hoping for a reliable/official VMWare Tools .deb repository.

Ah. Snap.

I am having one of those days. I read 'VMWare Tools' as 'VMWare Server' for some reason. Cheers!