On 2015-04-22, Eric Gamess <egam...@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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/slrnmjekuv.e0e.liam.p.otoole@dipsy.tubbynet
