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Patch and build VMware tools automatically
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Install freezes on "guest filesystem driver" #45

Open exuvo opened 9 years ago

exuvo commented 9 years ago

I'm running arch with kernel 4.0.4 x86_64 as a guest in VMware Workstation 11.1.0 on windows 7 64bit. When running compile.sh with vmware-tools 9.9.2 it attempts to start the "guest filesystem driver" and completely freezes the guest. I get a workstation error message saying that the guest cpu has been stopped. I'n not seeing any compilation errors before that.

I can compile vmware-tools 9.6.2 fine but then copy/paste does not work.

Does anyone have any ideas what I might be doing wrong?

mod commented 9 years ago

Fails with the latest Archlinux 2015.06.01

Linux kernel: Linux archbox 4.0.4-2-ARCH Fusion 7.1.1

It must be a kernel panic during ./compile.sh

Guest filesystem driver: done Mounting HGFS shares

liayn commented 9 years ago

Update to 11.1.2 and give the the newer tools a chance.

https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/vmw-desktop/ws/11.1.2/2780323/windows/core/VMware-workstation-11.1.2-2780323.exe.tar https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/vmw-desktop/ws/11.1.2/2780323/windows/packages/tools-linux-9.9.3.exe.tar

You need to apply #52 to the source, in order to have a working HGFS.

storm1ng commented 9 years ago

This is not solved by the latest version. However it seems to be a VMware/GCC (5.1.0) issue. If you use GCC 4.9 to compile the kernel there should not be an issue. Alternatively you can disable shared folders during installation which solves the problem. See here for more information: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=197684