Guest Opensuse 10.3: unable to build the vmhgfs module

[GNAM]

I've installed opensuse 10.3 final (kernel 2.6.22.5, gcc 4.2.1) in VMWARE 6.0.1 build 55017 (host XP)

I'm not able to compile vmhgfs module:

vmware-config-tools.pl

" /tmp/vmware-config15/vmhgfs-only/filesystem.c: In function 'HgfsInitFileSystem' error: too few arguments to function 'kmem_cache_extra'

Unable to build vmhgfs module. "

Any idea about that? (no problems with other modules)

[TCronin]

Do your kernel source files match your running kernel?

[GNAM]

Yes. And all other modules work

[vmpolluxx · Accepted solution]

Hi, I had the same problem and after some searching i found the solution in this thread .

First install vmware-tools-55017 without config!

Download 2.6.22-vmhgfs-55017.tar.bz2

Extract it to vmhgfs.tar and replace the original vmhgfs.tar under /usr/lib/vmware-tools/modules/source .

Next remove all vm.ko + vm.o modules from /lib/modules/"kernel-version"/misc.

Now compiling should work.

[bostjanv]

Hello,

In response to the last post, I have the exact problem, except that I have already upgraded to WS 6.0.2 (build 59824) in the hope that it would fix the problem. So I am asking does anybody know whether a modified vmhgfs module exists for this newer build?

Regards,

bostjanv

[bobvance]

anybody know whether a modified vmhgfs module exists for this newer build?

The general fix is to modify

compat_slab.h

in

vmhgfs.tar

under

/usr/lib/vmware-tools/modules/source

as discussed in:

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/108445

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/107691

.

.

Example:

cd /usr/lib/vmware-tools/modules/source/

tar xvf vmhgfs.tar

vi vmhgfs-only/compat_slab.h

.../*#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2, 6, 22) ..... / /del20071025jrv*/

...#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE <= KERNEL_VERSION(2, 6, 22) ..... /20071025jrv/

tar cvf vmhgfs.tar vmhgfs-only

Then re-config tools:

/usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl

hth

bv

[bostjanv]

I would simply like to thank you for the information and verify that it worked for me. By the way, in one of the comments within http://communities.vmware.com/thread/108445

it is stated that there is another solution (involving the addition of autoconf/cachecreate.c to the vmhgfs.tar package). Could somebody comment this?

Regards,

bostjanv

[Dwainem]

Thank you, thank you Bob! And thanks for the detailed example! That was very helpful!

Dwaine

[AWo]

This did it for me:

http://kamilkisiel.blogspot.com/2007/11/installing-vmware-tools-on-kernel-2622.html

AWo