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Inconsistent documentation regarding Debian 8 on Fusion 7

Hi,

so I wanted to create a VM with the freshly released Debian 8 and searched around for whether this was supported on Fusion 7.

What I found was a "Guest OS Install Guide" which says that Debian 8 is supported only on ESXi 6.

That page also links to a Compatibility Guide for more information, which however only speaks about Debian 5 and Debian 6.

A third page contains instructions on how to actually install Debian 8 on Fusion 7, alone it doesn't work that way.

All three pages are on vmware.com sites, nothing strange from random sources.

So what gives? Is Debian 8 fully supported?

There shouldn't be any major differences to any other modern Linux distribution, just that the VMware tools work well.

Thanks

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