Hi On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 01:14:10PM +0100, ha wrote: > I have a relatively new installation (2 months) of Debian Wheezy, > and not many additionaly packages installed. I *never* installed any > virtual machine on this computer, however, after some problems (that > I first though were hardware related) I found that vmtoolsd is > installed on this computer.
I cannot see a package named "vmtoolsd" in the debian archives. But I can see a package named "open-vm-tools", which has files named like that: https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=default§ion=all&arch=any&searchon=contents&keywords=vmtoolsd This package seems to be the VMware Tools bit intended to be installed on a guest VM - i.e. it does not provide virtualisation, but does stuff guests... Is your box a VMWare guest? If not, then you should not need open-vm-tools. > Synaptic does not show any installed VM package, same as my shell history. > > I'm aware that virtualization theoretically could be used to gain > backdoor (or at least processing power) and I wonder if I'm the > lucky one. I'm willing to explore this if anybody is interested to > lead me. I would not suspect this to be the case here. If you have the open-vm-tools package from the Debian repository, you should be safe. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140224122513.GA4691@hawking
