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. smcv