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open-vm-tools package

  1. Bug #1819207
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 1819207

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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote : Re: Add Modaliases to open-vm-tools-desktop to allow automatic installation by ubuntu-drivers

The updated package is available from my ppa: ppa:jibel/ppa

Here is the result with this ppa enabled:
root@ubuntu:~# apt policy open-vm-tools-desktop
open-vm-tools-desktop:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 2:10.3.5-7ubuntu1
  Version table:
     2:10.3.5-7ubuntu1 500
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/jibel/ppa/ubuntu disco/main amd64 Packages

root@ubuntu:~# apt show open-vm-tools-desktop
Package: open-vm-tools-desktop
[...]
Modaliases: vmwgfx(pci:v000015ADd00000405sv*sd*bc*sc*i*)
[...]

root@ubuntu:~# ubuntu-drivers list
open-vm-tools-desktop

root@ubuntu:~# ubuntu-drivers devices
== /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0f.0 ==
modalias : pci:v000015ADd00000405sv000015ADsd00000405bc03sc00i00
vendor : VMware
model : SVGA II Adapter
manual_install: True
driver : open-vm-tools-desktop - third-party free