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

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement]

On Desktop we need open-vm-tools-desktop which has dependencies on
"open-vm-tools" core package and X libraries and provides additional
desktop specific features.

I don't have ESX but with 19.04 and VMWare player easy install, this
package is installed and desktop integration works out of the box on
first boot. However we have to add this feature to the installer for
manual installation for a seamless desktop integration (copy/paste, DnD,
…)

open-vm-tools-desktop is in universe and must be promoted to main to
integrate it to the installer.

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

Status in debian-installer package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in open-vm-tools package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in subiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
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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