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Re: Installing open-vm-tools in Debian Wheezy



On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 08:04:14AM -0700, Eric Gamess wrote:
> 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

Sounds like Bug #779081, which suggests an upgrade to version
2:8.8.0+2012.05.21-724730-1+nmu2+deb7u1.

> 
> Compilation will also show this message:
> > FATAL: Module vmhgfs not found.
> > FATAL: Module vmsync not found. 
> 
> Any other idea????
> Thank you.
> 
> Eric.
> 
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