With the confirmation above I installed 18.04 Desktop and 17.10 Desktop to check the situation on my own. My current assumption that this would only apply to -Desktop installations because it is not on the seed would be the same for both, so it will be interesting what I find.
I had to do that on a remote server, that plus the graphical UI usually used by VMware slows this task down a bit :-/ ** Changed in: open-vm-tools (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => In Progress -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1773931 Title: Ubuntu Desktop Artful 17.10 needs reboot to validate open-vm-tools usage To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1773931/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs