I am testing Ubuntu Lucid Beta1 this week on our ESX 3.5 servers (managed by Vcenter 4.0).
The VMware tools have been an issue forever, for various reasons:
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Finally found how to correctly install open-vm-tools on Lucid:
- Install Lucid
apt-get dist-upgrade- reboot
apt-get install --no-install-recommends linux-headers-`uname -r` open-vm-dkms open-vm-tools
The trick here is to use --no-install-recommends. The GUI tools are in the Recommends of the CLI tools (don't ask me), so installing the CLI tools with just apt-get install open-vm-tools will also pull down the X stuff. This way everything
Everything seems to work just fine:
