Comment 16 for bug 133020

The packages in the "partner" repository are commercial (free and/or non-free) packages that Canonical customers pay to get packaged / verified / maintained in different ways. As such, it is easier to ask any give package's original publisher (in this case vmware) about its availability.

This being said, I just asked one of the people in charge of commercial packaging at Canonical and I was told this specific package is being worked on and should be available "soon".

Just to be clear, the process to get a pakage in the "partner" repository (previously known as "commercial" in other Ubuntu versions) is a commercial deal between a third party and Canonical, not a community-driven process.