Re: Installing open-vm-tools in Debian Wheezy
On 2015-04-22, Eric Gamess <egamess@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am trying to install open-vm-tools in Debian 7.8 i386.
> I tried:
> apt-get install open-vm-tools
>
>
> And I got an error message:
> Error! Build of vmhgfs.ko failed for: 3.2.0-4-686-pae (i686)
> Consult the make.log in the build directory
> /var/lib/dkms/open-vm-tools/2012.05.21/build/ for more information.
> Setting up open-vm-tools (2:8.8.0+2012.05.21-724730-1+nmu2) ...
> FATAL: Module vmhgfs not found.
> FATAL: Module vmsync not found.
>
>
> Some web pages recommend to install "open-vm-source". But there is
> no such packet in Debian Wheezy.
>
> By the way, it seems that the problem is during the compilation
> of file:
> /var/lib/dkms/open-vm-tools/2012.05.21/build/vmhgfs/inode.c
>
> What should I do????
> Thank you.
>
> Eric.
>
>
The open-vm-tools package recomends open-vm-dkms. The package
description for the latter is 'Source for VMware guest systems driver
(DKMS)'. It seems that that will give you the source, packaged to work
with DKMS. Therefore the module(s) will automaticaly be recompiled on
kernel upgrade.
--
Liam
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