Problem With VMWare Tools 10 Installation in Ubuntu 12.04 (Linux 3.12.66)

[EricFMA]

Environment:

• VMWare Fusion 8.5
• Ubuntu Linux 12.04 (Linux 3.12.66)

I was upgrading my VMWare tools from 9 to 10, and it all seemed to go smoothly, until I noticed this:

The VMware Host-Guest Filesystem allows for shared folders between the host OS

and the guest OS in a Fusion or Workstation virtual environment.  Do you wish

to enable this feature? [yes]

Using kernel build system.

make: Entering directory `/tmp/modconfig-ZBkEld/vmhgfs-only'

/usr/bin/make -C /lib/modules/3.12.66-editshare1/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. \

      MODULEBUILDDIR= modules

make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.12.66-editshare1'

  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-ZBkEld/vmhgfs-only/backdoor.o

  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-ZBkEld/vmhgfs-only/backdoorGcc64.o

  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-ZBkEld/vmhgfs-only/bdhandler.o

  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-ZBkEld/vmhgfs-only/cpName.o

  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-ZBkEld/vmhgfs-only/cpNameLinux.o

  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-ZBkEld/vmhgfs-only/cpNameLite.o

  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-ZBkEld/vmhgfs-only/dentry.o

  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-ZBkEld/vmhgfs-only/dir.o

  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-ZBkEld/vmhgfs-only/file.o

  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-ZBkEld/vmhgfs-only/filesystem.o

  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-ZBkEld/vmhgfs-only/fsutil.o

  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-ZBkEld/vmhgfs-only/hgfsBd.o

  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-ZBkEld/vmhgfs-only/hgfsEscape.o

  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-ZBkEld/vmhgfs-only/hgfsUtil.o

  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-ZBkEld/vmhgfs-only/inode.o

  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-ZBkEld/vmhgfs-only/link.o

  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-ZBkEld/vmhgfs-only/message.o

  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-ZBkEld/vmhgfs-only/module.o

  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-ZBkEld/vmhgfs-only/page.o

  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-ZBkEld/vmhgfs-only/request.o

  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-ZBkEld/vmhgfs-only/rpcout.o

  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-ZBkEld/vmhgfs-only/stubs.o

  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-ZBkEld/vmhgfs-only/super.o

  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-ZBkEld/vmhgfs-only/transport.o

  CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-ZBkEld/vmhgfs-only/kernelStubsLinux.o

  LD [M]  /tmp/modconfig-ZBkEld/vmhgfs-only/vmhgfs.o

  Building modules, stage 2.

  MODPOST 1 modules

  CC      /tmp/modconfig-ZBkEld/vmhgfs-only/vmhgfs.mod.o

  LD [M]  /tmp/modconfig-ZBkEld/vmhgfs-only/vmhgfs.ko

make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.12.66-editshare1'

/usr/bin/make -C $PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. \

      MODULEBUILDDIR= postbuild

make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/modconfig-ZBkEld/vmhgfs-only'

make[1]: `postbuild' is up to date.

make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/modconfig-ZBkEld/vmhgfs-only'

cp -f vmhgfs.ko ./../vmhgfs.o

make: Leaving directory `/tmp/modconfig-ZBkEld/vmhgfs-only'

The filesystem driver (vmhgfs module) is used only for the shared folder

feature. The rest of the software provided by VMware Tools is designed to work

independently of this feature.

If you wish to have the shared folders feature, you can install the driver by

running vmware-config-tools.pl again after making sure that gcc, binutils, make

and the kernel sources for your running kernel are installed on your machine.

These packages are available on your distribution's installation CD.

[ Press Enter key to continue ]

Which on the one hand looks like the the install for vmhgfs completely without error, but on the other hand looks like it failed since it's telling me to run vmware-config-tools again to get the shared folders feature. I confirmed that the shared folder feature is not working. I got similar messages for other features; the feature seemed to build fine, but then I get a similar message implying it didn't. In any case, the folder that should show up in /mnt/hgfs isn't there, and doesn't show up when I do the "mount" command. But if I type "vmware-hgfsclient" it does list the folder that is supposed to be shared.

I've tried rebooting, running the uninstaller and installing again, but nothing is working.

The complete install log is attached.

Can someone please help?

Thanks!

-Eric