Re: Installing open-vm-tools in Debian Wheezy

[Eric Gamess <egamess@gmail.com>]

Thank you Liam,

> 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.

Yes, by the way, when you install open-vm-tools, it will
also install open-vm-dkms, since it is a dependency. It seems
that the source code is now in this new package, and not in
open-vm-source anymore.


Yes, open-vm-tools starts to compile, and will stop compiling
because there is a syntax error in file:
/var/lib/dkms/open-vm-tools/2012.05.21/build/vmhgfs/inode.c

Compilation will also show this message:
> FATAL: Module vmhgfs not found.
> FATAL: Module vmsync not found. 

Any other idea????
Thank you.

Eric.