support for installing open-vm-tools via execscript

[Richie Simon]

I am looking for a way to use vmbuilder to deploy Ubuntu 10.04 Server virtual machines with open-vm-tools. It installs without any errors but the modules do not load upon first boot. I'm sorry that I'm not much of a programmer so I can't offer any more information other than when using --debug the error "depmod....(bad exit status: 1)" comes up. Also important to know: because on the server edition of Ubuntu we must use the option "--no-install-recommends," we must specify the following in an --execscript rather than using addpkg, although I'm betting addpkg would work anyway.

"chroot $1 apt-get install -y --force-yes --no-install-recommends linux-headers-virtual open-vm-dkms open-vm-tools"

I am surprised that this has never been brought up before. As an ESXi admin, it seems that open-vm-tools and vmbuilder should go hand-in-hand.

It is important to mention that a "firstboot" script is not an option. This MUST be installed prior to the vm booting for the first time. Otherwise the disk controller driver module "vmw_pvscsi" will not load, or even for PXE booting the NIC driver module "vmxnet3" will not load, and the machine will not have a boot image to boot from.