[Bug 1790427] Re: Automatically install open-vm-tools when installer running in a VMware VM

[Joshua Powers]

>From latest sync notes:

Currently open-vm-tools is installed automatically when install Ubuntu
Live Server image (cosmic-live-server-amd64.iso) and ubuntu cloud image
(cosmic-server-cloudimg-amd64.ova) in ESXi and the open-vm-tools works
well.

But for server image (ubuntu-18.10-server-amd64.iso) and desktop image
(ubuntu-18.10-desktop-amd64.iso), open-vm-tools is not installed by
default and we need to install it manually by using command "apt install
open-vm-tools"

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This would indicate that this is only occurring on the debian-installer
(d-i) based ISOs and not the cloud image (OVA) or live-iso (subiquity).

Can you please confirm this?

** Changed in: open-vm-tools (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Incomplete

** Changed in: subiquity (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  Automatically install open-vm-tools when installer running in a VMware
  VM

Status in open-vm-tools package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in subiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in open-vm-tools package in Debian:
  New

Bug description:
  It is valuable for open-vm-tools to install automatically for both
  desktop and server if their OS installer detects that it is running on
  a VMware VM.

  This may require first work with the Debian community to get this implemented for Debian since Ubuntu is based on Debian.
  [Debian bug#782287]
  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=782287

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