Virtual Machine Additions for Linux

Yesterday, Version 2.0 of the Virtual Machine Additions for Linux were released on the Microsoft Download Center. Officially, this provides addition support for Virtual Server 2005 SP1, however I have read reports from the beta program suggesting they may also work under Virtual PC (albeit unsupported). The additions are for RedHat and SuSE based Linux distributions. I tried converting the supplied RPM files into .DEB files for installation in Ubuntu, but the scripts would then get installed specifically test for being installed on a Debian distribution and fail early. If I was feeling adventurous I’d remove these checks and see what happened - but my Linux knowledge is a little sketchy so I’ll stick with VMWare for now for heavy duty Ubuntu use until I read about someone clever getting them up and running.