Ubuntu Desktop To Auto-Install Necessary VM Tools/Drivers When Running On VMware

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Ubuntu Desktop To Auto-Install Necessary VM Tools/Drivers When Running On VMware

In seeking to improve the out-of-the-box experience when running the Ubuntu desktop as a guest virtual machine within VMware's products, Ubuntu is planning on having the open-vm-tools-desktop package be automatically installed for providing a better initial experience...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-Desktop-Auto-VMware

[Spooktra]

More proof as to why Ubuntu continues to be THE premiere Linux Distro. For my main system, I have not found any distro that gives a better, smoother experience; I have a couple of old laptops that I use as guinea pigs to test the latest iterations from various distros but I have yet to find any that matches, much less beats, Ubuntu.

[theghost]

More proof as to why Ubuntu continues to be THE premiere Linux Distro. For my main system, I have not found any distro that gives a better, smoother experience; I have a couple of old laptops that I use as guinea pigs to test the latest iterations from various distros but I have yet to find any that matches, much less beats, Ubuntu.

Nice try.
One reason why you are wrong: https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?s...searchon=names

[leech]

Pretty sure Debian already does this, just like RHEL already installs the vdagent stuff for Spice when ran under KVM.