open-vm-tools included/installed by default

[Ben Howard]

Now that open-vm-tools is in main, the obvious question is whether or
not we should include open-vm-tools on the default installation media.
While open-vm-tools is not explicitly required anymore for a VM to run
properly, it does offer hypervisor integration:

  * vmtoolsd: service responsible for the virtual machine status report.
  * vmware-check-vm: tool to check whether a utility has been started on
    a physical or virtual machine.
  * vmware-xferlogs: Dumps logging/debugging information to the virtual
    machine logfile.
  * vmware-toolbox-cmd: tool to obtain virtual machine information of
    the host such as statistics
  * vmware-user-suid-wrapper: tool to enable clipboard sharing
    (copy/paste) between host and virtual machine.

Most users who run a VMware hypervisor want to run some sort of VMware
tooling. VMware is now recommending open-vm-tools over the priority
tools and several distributions (SuSE/SLES, Fedora/RHEL 7) are now
installing these tools by default.

I would like to propose that we ship the open-vm-tools on the desktop
and server media and install by default on VMware targets.

~Ben

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Ben Howard
ben.howard at canonical.com
Canonical
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