Public bug reported:
I am running Ubuntu 12.04 as a guest OS on my Win 7 host. While
installing the vmware tools the vmhgfs module fails to compile and
therefore the modprobe vmhgfs fails and hence no shared folder works.
Following are the errors:
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmhgfs-only/kernelStubsLinux.o
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmhgfs-only/fsutil.c: In function
‘HgfsChangeFileAttributes’:
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmhgfs-only/fsutil.c:610:4: error: assignment of
read-only member ‘i_nlink’
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmhgfs-only/file.c:128:4: warning: initialization from
incompatible pointer type [enabled by default]
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmhgfs-only/file.c:128:4: warning: (near
initialization for ‘HgfsFileFileOperations.fsync’) [enabled by default]
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmhgfs-only/fsutil.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmhgfs-only/tcp.c:53:30: error: expected ‘)’ before
numeric constant
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmhgfs-only/tcp.c:56:25: error: expected ‘)’ before
‘int’
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmhgfs-only/tcp.c:59:33: error: expected ‘)’ before
‘int’
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmhgfs-only/tcp.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmhgfs-only] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.2.0-23-generic-pae'
make: *** [vmhgfs.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmhgfs-only'
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: vmware
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vmware tools are failing for vmhgfs module and hence shared folders
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