On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Tanstaafl <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2014-02-01 10:45 AM, Daniel Frey <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 02/01/2014 07:13 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: >>> >>> I'm getting an error I start it, but it says it starts: >>> >>>> dinkumthinkum : Sat Feb 01, 09:52:46 : ~ >>>> # /etc/init.d/vmware-tools start >>>> * /tmp/VMwareDnD: correcting mode >>>> * /proc/fs/vmblock/mountPoint: creating directory >>>> * checkpath: mkdir: No such file or directory >>>> * Mounting vmblock ... >>>> mount: mount point /proc/fs/vmblock/mountPoint does not exist [ !! ] >>>> * Starting vmware-tools ... [ ok ] > > >> vmblock needs fuse enabled in the kernel. I'm not sure if it needs a >> module or not, I know my kernels use fuse as a module. >> >> If fuse is set in the kernel already, then app-emulation/open-vm-tools >> is not built with the 'fuse' USE flag. > > > Bingo - thanks Daniel. > > So... shouldn't this be considered a 'bug' then? If open-vm-tools requires > the fuse USE flag, it should be set by default. >
It isn't needed if you don't use vmblock I guess. I just changed IUSE to enable it by default anyway.
