14 DAY TRIAL // The applications and packages that are going to be integrated in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) are still being decided, and now it's time for the open-vm-tools package.
A proposal has been made for the inclusion of the open-vm-tools by default in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr). It may not seem important, but it could be necessary for people who are running a VMWare hypervisor.
“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.”
“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,” said Canonical's Ben Howard.
A lot of proposals have been made in the past few months, but it's very likely that this will actually happen. Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) is scheduled to launch on April 17.