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		Sapient on Oct 29, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala released 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.

santry on Oct 29, 2009 [–]

http://www.virtualbox.org/

FTFY

ableal on Oct 30, 2009 | [–]

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.

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