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Discourage installing open-vm-tools on Linux hosts #757

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@jamesderlin

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I've seen a few cases of users asking on Reddit or on superuser.com for help where they mention that they've installed open-vm-tools on their Linux host, apparently not understanding its purpose.

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Is it possible to discourage (perhaps with a warning or interactive prompt) people from installing open-vm-tools if they do not detect that they are being installed into a VMware VM? (I think that VMware Tools for Windows might prevent it already.)

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