0005553: Ensure virtualization related packages are automatically installed

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0005553	Kali Linux	Feature Requests	public	2019-06-18 12:31	2020-12-01 10:48

Reporter	rhertzog	Assigned To	rhertzog
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	N/A
Status	resolved	Resolution	fixed

Summary	0005553: Ensure virtualization related packages are automatically installed
Description	Many Kali users use it in VM and every time they install a new VM, they have to install the virtualization-related packages enabling some features (such as file transfer with the host, destkop resizing, etc). They should not have to do this, instead the installer should detect the virtualization and automatically install the appropriate packages.
Additional Information	It's the hw-detect package which should handle this in debian-installer: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/hw-detect For VMware there's a bug requesting open-vm-tools auto-install: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=782287 And a merge request is ready as well: https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/hw-detect/merge_requests/2 We want to push this work forward and build on it. I see two things to be done on top of this existing change: do the same for virtualbox (and possibly qemu, kvm, hyper-v, xen) add some way to conditionally install the -desktop variant of each virtualization packages (hw-detect is called too early to know if the user wants to install a desktop or not)

rhertzog 2019-06-23 14:08 administrator ~0010727	The required changes have been committed to Debian. It was a bit more involved than expected notably for virtualbox where installing the virtualbox-guest-dkms package would break the graphical installer. https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer-utils/commit/26f9c5f033ceedfd8d6099cdf2d49c1b6776e0e4 https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/hw-detect/compare/903110786dd74a1823ba5d7e38a21da114c2ced3...ae745b3a00ce50576b8008199ba7340a27dee485 I uploaded the snapshot of the corresponding udeb to Kali and will rebuild the Debian installer with those modified udeb so that the feature will be available in upcoming daily/weekly images.

rhertzog 2019-06-23 14:19 administrator ~0010728	debian-installer 20190514+kali1+b1 is building right now with the fixed packages.

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2019-06-18 12:31	rhertzog	New Issue
2019-06-18 12:31	rhertzog	Status	new => assigned
2019-06-18 12:31	rhertzog	Assigned To	=> rhertzog
2019-06-23 14:08	rhertzog	Note Added: 0010727
2019-06-23 14:19	rhertzog	Status	assigned => resolved
2019-06-23 14:19	rhertzog	Resolution	open => fixed
2019-06-23 14:19	rhertzog	Fixed in Version	=> 2019.3
2019-06-23 14:19	rhertzog	Note Added: 0010728
2020-12-01 10:48	g0tmi1k	Priority	high => normal