Looks like the dkms package was indeed deprecated in later releases. The
last ubuntu release where I can find it is artful:
andreas@nsnx:~$ rmadison open-vm-tools-dkms
open-vm-tools-dkms | 2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu6 | trusty/universe
| all
open-vm-tools-dkms | 2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu6.4 |
trusty-updates/universe | all
open-vm-tools-dkms | 2:10.0.7-3227872-2ubuntu1 | xenial/universe
| all
open-vm-tools-dkms | 2:10.0.7-3227872-5ubuntu1~16.04.2 |
xenial-updates/universe | all
open-vm-tools-dkms | 2:10.1.10-3 | artful/universe
| all
open-vm-tools-dkms | 2:10.1.10-3ubuntu0.1 |
artful-updates/universe | all
It was dropped in debian in version 2:10.2.0-1 on Fri, 19 Jan 2018:
open-vm-tools (2:10.2.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium
...
* [5bf9301] Drop -dkms package.
Thanks to Christian Ehrhardt (Closes: #884656)
Aha, that leads us to the upstream issue:
https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/issues/217
And this particular comment:
https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/issues/217#issuecomment-352119641
"""
is there any reason you are trying to build vmxnet driver on kernel 4.15? This
driver is not supported for kernel version >= 3.3, see
https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1001805.
"""
That kb article says:
"Note: VMXNET driver is only supported on kernels earlier than 3.3"
I guess this means this bug should be closed as "wontfix".
** Bug watch added: github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/issues #217
https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/issues/217
** No longer affects: linux-meta-hwe-edge (Ubuntu)
** Changed in: open-vm-tools (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Won't Fix
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open VM tools DKMS fails to build mostly due to multiply defined
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