Comments on Installing VMware Tools On Debian Lenny 5.0.2 With Gnome Desktop On ESX Server 3.5 Update 4

You're right.  and while we're at it, there should be no documentation on virtualization, GUIs, The GIMP, networking, openoffice.org, the kernel... all because windows has these technologies as well.  Why would it be good for someone to use vmware on a windows host to run Linux, but not the reverse?  tools such as this blur the line and allow people to make choices.  without programs like vmware if I really do need software that is written for windows I would have to dual boot as apposed to simply starting virtual machine.  It's a chicken and egg sort of thing.  to get software you need users, and to get users you need software.

The OP holds an excentric view of the world no doubt, but I think you would have been better off reading the article before responding. It is about installing VMWare tools on a Debian guest hosted on WMWare ESXi, a bare metal hypervisor. Windows is not used anywhere.

Anyway, kudos to the article author for taking his time to share his knowledge.

Agreed - the OP has not thought about the comments before writing them.

 I found this article extremely helpful - allowing me to use Debian on my ESX cluster so that I may now move many of my VM roles over to linux servers INSTEAD of using Microsoft.

Thank you to the author of the article for sharing his expertise.

Yes. This is exactly why I looked this up too. I don't want to use M$oft if I don't have to.

Thanks for showing us how to  install freedom restricting bits onto our GNU/Linux operating systems. Articles like this do nothing to help our community and only serve to teach people to value everything Microsoft, Adobe, and Apple can already provide.

Thanks for a great article! You forgot to install "killall" (apt-get install psmisc) though.

Cheers,
Emil

Actually perhaps killall is allready installed if you have Gnome installed. I was installing on an X-less machine when I had to add psmisc.

Cheers,
Emil

Thanks a lot, it worked without any problem. Even the mouse.