Thanks for the quick response! :-) I found out my issue though and it is an issue with upstream. I've submitted a bug report there instead.
Basically the way that vmware on the host interacts with the guest is problematic. When doing vmrun enableShares, it trys to mount all the host shares at /mnt/vmhgfs but if that directory doesn't exist yet, the error gets masked. It's fixed in 9.10 but I've asked them to fix it in 9.4 as well for the possibility that it might make it into jessie (not sure how that works with freezing). One thing that would help is if that directory got created at installation of open-vm-tools, but that's pretty hacky and seems unecessary. The fact that that path is hardcoded in the software just kinda sucks. Cheers, - Alan https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/issues/12 On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 12:49 PM, Bernd Zeimetz <[email protected]> wrote: > hi, > > > I'm trying to get this working on my machine as vmhgfs will not mount > the shared > > folder. I'm not sure if 9.10 fixes this issue or not (I hope so), but I > can't > > get the source to compile on my machine. > > what is running on your machine? > If it is wheezy, try open-vm-tools (+-dkms) from backports. > Or if the only problem you have is that the vmhgfs module doesn't build > anymore > in wheezy, get an updates packages from stable-proposed-updates. > > > > Any pointers on what the requirements (libraries, packages, patches, > etc) are to > > get this working for debian jessie? Otherwise, you mentioned that it > would be > > in debian backports. Is that repository active yet? > > Use open-vm-tools and open-vm-tools-dkms from jessie. Works. If not, > please file > a new bug report. > > cheers, > > bernd > > > -- > Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer > http://bzed.de http://www.debian.org > GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F >
