This introduces new virtual hardware (v7 instead of v4), which the open-vm-tools can use.
I have recently upgraded reinstalled our ESX servers so they now run ESX4.0u1.
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. The trick here is to use -no-install-recommends. apt-get install -no-install-recommends linux-headers-virtual open-vm-dkms open-vm-tools.Finally found how to correctly install open-vm-tools on Lucid: I managed to get a bare install by using the alternate ISO, then using F4 from the boot menu (install command line system). The open source open-vm-tools are good, and with the recent addition of the dkms system it is possible to recompile the modules on a abi-bumping kernel upgrade. Ubuntu kernel upgrades render the binary VMware shipped modules unusable.The VMware tools have been an issue forever, for various reasons: I am testing Ubuntu Lucid Beta1 this week on our ESX 3.5 servers (managed by Vcenter 4.0).
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