Comment 34 for bug 1275656

Hi,

I tried to test this and couldn't get it to work, though I may have done something stupid.

I run precise, and upgraded to the lts-trusty kernel. I then removed open-vm-tools (& friends), and inserted the custom built precise package.

That all worked fine, but I still can't mount vmhgfs as I did before I did the kernel upgrade in the first place (more precisely, my /etc/fstab line worked, whereas now the system still hangs on boot until I press 'S' at the console). I note the above says "The modules which fail to build have been merged upstream, ***with the exception of the host-guest file system (hgfs) module which has been replaced with an hgfs FUSE helper***. These modules are available in v3.9 of the kernel and later (Saucy and later)" (my emphasis).

That rather implies that the FUSE helper is now included within the package(s). If so, how do I use it as the previous syntax does not appear to work. If not, how does one get the FUSE helper?

Alex

amb@nimrod-ubuntu:~$ fgrep vmhgfs /etc/fstab
.host:/amb-nimrod /home/amb/nimrod vmhgfs none 0 0
amb@nimrod-ubuntu:~$ sudo mount -t vmhgfs .host:/amb-nimrod /home/amb/nimrod
Error: cannot mount filesystem: No such device
amb@nimrod-ubuntu:~$ uname -a
Linux nimrod-ubuntu 3.13.0-29-generic #53~precise1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jun 4 22:06:25 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
amb@nimrod-ubuntu:~$ dpkg --list | egrep '(open-vm|linux-image|linux-headers)'
ii linux-headers-3.13.0-29 3.13.0-29.53~precise1 Header files related to Linux kernel version 3.13.0
ii linux-headers-3.13.0-29-generic 3.13.0-29.53~precise1 Linux kernel headers for version 3.13.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-headers-3.2.0-64 3.2.0-64.97 Header files related to Linux kernel version 3.2.0
ii linux-headers-3.2.0-64-generic 3.2.0-64.97 Linux kernel headers for version 3.2.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-headers-3.8.0-35 3.8.0-35.52~precise1 Header files related to Linux kernel version 3.8.0
ii linux-headers-3.8.0-35-generic 3.8.0-35.52~precise1 Linux kernel headers for version 3.8.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-headers-generic 3.2.0.64.76 Generic Linux kernel headers
ii linux-headers-generic-lts-trusty 3.13.0.29.25 Generic Linux kernel headers
ii linux-image-3.13.0-29-generic 3.13.0-29.53~precise1 Linux kernel image for version 3.13.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.2.0-48-generic 3.2.0-48.74 Linux kernel image for version 3.2.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.2.0-57-generic 3.2.0-57.87 Linux kernel image for version 3.2.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.2.0-58-generic 3.2.0-58.88 Linux kernel image for version 3.2.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.2.0-64-generic 3.2.0-64.97 Linux kernel image for version 3.2.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.8.0-35-generic 3.8.0-35.52~precise1 Linux kernel image for version 3.8.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-generic 3.2.0.64.76 Generic Linux kernel image
ii linux-image-generic-lts-trusty 3.13.0.29.25 Generic Linux kernel image
ii open-vm-tools-lts-trusty 2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu6~precise1 Open VMware Tools for virtual machines hosted on VMware (CLI)
ii open-vm-tools-lts-trusty-dbg 2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu6~precise1 Open VMware Tools for virtual machines hosted on VMware (debug)
ii open-vm-tools-lts-trusty-desktop 2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu6~precise1 Open VMware Tools for virtual machines hosted on VMware (GUI)