The current release of VMware Tools fails to compile its Shared Folders (HGFS) module on Ubuntu 14.04 guest VMs.
It seems that VMware has failed to keep their code up-to-date with routine updates to the Linux kernel for some months.
Solution:
1. Take a snapshot of your VM guest in case step 2 goes wrong...
2. Patch the VMware Tools source code in your VM guest...
#!/bin/sh -x
cd /usr/lib/vmware-tools/modules/source
tar xf vmhgfs.tar
grep -q d_u.d_alias vmhgfs-only/inode.c && echo "already patched" && exit 0
sed -i -e s/d_alias/d_u.d_alias/ vmhgfs-only/inode.c
cp -p vmhgfs.tar vmhgfs.tar.orig
tar cf vmhgfs.tar vmhgfs-only
vmware-config-tools.pl
This works for VMware Workstation 11.1.0 build-2496824 with the 3.16.0-41-generic kernel on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS x86_64.
Sources: https://github.com/rasa/vmware-tools-patches
https://github.com/rasa/vmware-tools-patches/issues/29
Tuesday 16 June 2015
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