I would like to share my Mac OSX 'Downloads' folder. I set this up as a shared folder in vmware settings.
Currently, although I made a folder at mnt/hgfs/Downloads, it does not have the contents of my Mac OSX Downloads folder in it.
I ran the vmware install perl script ./vmware-install.pl and at the end of the installation I get this message:
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. An Ask Ubuntu question has an accepted answer here . Can anybody tell me the Fedora equivalent of linux-source, the fourth step in this answer or tell me how to share the 'Downloads' folder?
As requested by Warren, here is the full output from the tools install:
[dave@localhost ~]$ cd /home/dave/Documents/vmtools/vmware-tools-distrib/ [dave@localhost vmware-tools-distrib]$ ls bin doc etc FILES INSTALL installer lib vmware-install.pl [dave@localhost vmware-tools-distrib]$ sudo ./vmware-install.pl A previous installation of VMware Tools has been detected. The previous installation was made by the tar installer (version 4). Keeping the tar4 installer database format. You have a version of VMware Tools installed. Continuing this install will first uninstall the currently installed version. Do you wish to continue? (yes/no) [yes] y Uninstalling the tar installation of VMware Tools. Stopping services for VMware Tools Stopping vmware-tools (via systemctl): [ OK ] Stopping Thinprint services in the virtual machine: Stopping Virtual Printing daemon: done File /etc/pulse/default.pa is backed up to /etc/pulse/default.pa.old.1. The removal of VMware Tools 9.9.2 build-2496486 for Linux completed successfully. Installing VMware Tools. In which directory do you want to install the binary files? [/usr/bin] What is the directory that contains the init directories (rc0.d/ to rc6.d/)? [/etc/rc.d] What is the directory that contains the init scripts? [/etc/rc.d/init.d] In which directory do you want to install the daemon files? [/usr/sbin] In which directory do you want to install the library files? [/usr/lib/vmware-tools] The path "/usr/lib/vmware-tools" does not exist currently. This program is going to create it, including needed parent directories. Is this what you want? [yes] In which directory do you want to install the documentation files? [/usr/share/doc/vmware-tools] The path "/usr/share/doc/vmware-tools" does not exist currently. This program is going to create it, including needed parent directories. Is this what you want? [yes] The installation of VMware Tools 9.9.2 build-2496486 for Linux completed successfully. You can decide to remove this software from your system at any time by invoking the following command: "/usr/bin/vmware-uninstall-tools.pl". Before running VMware Tools for the first time, you need to configure it by invoking the following command: "/usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl". Do you want this program to invoke the command for you now? [yes] Initializing... Making sure services for VMware Tools are stopped. Stopping Thinprint services in the virtual machine: Stopping Virtual Printing daemon: done Stopping vmware-tools (via systemctl): [ OK ] The module vmci has already been installed on this system by another installer or package and will not be modified by this installer. The module vsock has already been installed on this system by another installer or package and will not be modified by this installer. The module vmxnet3 has already been installed on this system by another installer or package and will not be modified by this installer. The module pvscsi has already been installed on this system by another installer or package and will not be modified by this installer. The module vmmemctl has already been installed on this system by another installer or package and will not be modified by this installer. 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] Before you can compile modules, you need to have the following installed... make gcc kernel headers of the running kernel Searching for GCC... Detected GCC binary at "/bin/gcc". The path "/bin/gcc" appears to be a valid path to the gcc binary. Would you like to change it? [no] Searching for a valid kernel header path... Detected the kernel headers at "/lib/modules/3.18.8-201.fc21.x86_64/build/include". The path "/lib/modules/3.18.8-201.fc21.x86_64/build/include" appears to be a valid path to the 3.18.8-201.fc21.x86_64 kernel headers. Would you like to change it? [no] make: Entering directory '/tmp/modconfig-s61CNS/vmhgfs-only' Using kernel build system. /bin/make -C /lib/modules/3.18.8-201.fc21.x86_64/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. \ MODULEBUILDDIR= modules make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/kernels/3.18.8-201.fc21.x86_64' CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-s61CNS/vmhgfs-only/message.o CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-s61CNS/vmhgfs-only/dir.o CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-s61CNS/vmhgfs-only/rpcout.o CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-s61CNS/vmhgfs-only/hgfsUtil.o CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-s61CNS/vmhgfs-only/cpName.o CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-s61CNS/vmhgfs-only/request.o CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-s61CNS/vmhgfs-only/module.o CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-s61CNS/vmhgfs-only/link.o CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-s61CNS/vmhgfs-only/bdhandler.o CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-s61CNS/vmhgfs-only/transport.o CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-s61CNS/vmhgfs-only/inode.o In file included from include/linux/list.h:8:0, from include/linux/preempt.h:10, from include/linux/spinlock.h:50, from include/linux/mmzone.h:7, from include/linux/gfp.h:5, from include/linux/mm.h:9, from include/linux/pagemap.h:7, from /tmp/modconfig-s61CNS/vmhgfs-only/inode.c:29: /tmp/modconfig-s61CNS/vmhgfs-only/inode.c: In function ‘HgfsPermission’: include/linux/kernel.h:796:27: error: ‘struct dentry’ has no member named ‘d_alias’ const typeof( ((type *)0)->member ) *__mptr = (ptr); \ ^ include/linux/list.h:688:40: note: in expansion of macro ‘container_of’ #define hlist_entry(ptr, type, member) container_of(ptr,type,member) ^ include/linux/list.h:699:15: note: in expansion of macro ‘hlist_entry’ ____ptr ? hlist_entry(____ptr, type, member) : NULL; \ ^ include/linux/list.h:709:13: note: in expansion of macro ‘hlist_entry_safe’ for (pos = hlist_entry_safe((head)->first, typeof(*(pos)), member);\ ^ /tmp/modconfig-s61CNS/vmhgfs-only/inode.c:1920:7: note: in expansion of macro ‘hlist_for_each_entry’ hlist_for_each_entry(dentry, ^ include/linux/kernel.h:796:48: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type const typeof( ((type *)0)->member ) *__mptr = (ptr); \ ^ include/linux/list.h:688:40: note: in expansion of macro ‘container_of’ #define hlist_entry(ptr, type, member) container_of(ptr,type,member) ^ include/linux/list.h:699:15: note: in expansion of macro ‘hlist_entry’ ____ptr ? hlist_entry(____ptr, type, member) : NULL; \ ^ include/linux/list.h:709:13: note: in expansion of macro ‘hlist_entry_safe’ for (pos = hlist_entry_safe((head)->first, typeof(*(pos)), member);\ ^ /tmp/modconfig-s61CNS/vmhgfs-only/inode.c:1920:7: note: in expansion of macro ‘hlist_for_each_entry’ hlist_for_each_entry(dentry, ^ In file included from include/linux/compiler-gcc.h:106:0, from include/linux/compiler.h:54, from include/uapi/linux/stddef.h:1, from include/linux/stddef.h:4, from ./include/uapi/linux/posix_types.h:4, from include/uapi/linux/types.h:13, from include/linux/types.h:5, from /tmp/modconfig-s61CNS/vmhgfs-only/./shared/driver-config.h:71, from /tmp/modconfig-s61CNS/vmhgfs-only/inode.c:26: include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h:14:34: error: ‘struct dentry’ has no member named ‘d_alias’ #define __compiler_offsetof(a,b) __builtin_offsetof(a,b) ^ include/linux/stddef.h:17:31: note: in expansion of macro ‘__compiler_offsetof’ #define offsetof(TYPE,MEMBER) __compiler_offsetof(TYPE,MEMBER) ^ include/linux/kernel.h:797:29: note: in expansion of macro ‘offsetof’ (type *)( (char *)__mptr - offsetof(type,member) );}) ^ include/linux/list.h:688:40: note: in expansion of macro ‘container_of’ #define hlist_entry(ptr, type, member) container_of(ptr,type,member) ^ include/linux/list.h:699:15: note: in expansion of macro ‘hlist_entry’ ____ptr ? hlist_entry(____ptr, type, member) : NULL; \ ^ include/linux/list.h:709:13: note: in expansion of macro ‘hlist_entry_safe’ for (pos = hlist_entry_safe((head)->first, typeof(*(pos)), member);\ ^ /tmp/modconfig-s61CNS/vmhgfs-only/inode.c:1920:7: note: in expansion of macro ‘hlist_for_each_entry’ hlist_for_each_entry(dentry, ^ In file included from include/linux/preempt.h:10:0, from include/linux/spinlock.h:50, from include/linux/mmzone.h:7, from include/linux/gfp.h:5, from include/linux/mm.h:9, from include/linux/pagemap.h:7, from /tmp/modconfig-s61CNS/vmhgfs-only/inode.c:29: include/linux/list.h:711:35: error: ‘struct dentry’ has no member named ‘d_alia’ pos = hlist_entry_safe((pos)->member.next, typeof(*(pos)), member)) ^ include/linux/list.h:698:12: note: in definition of macro ‘hlist_entry_safe’ ({ typeof(ptr) ____ptr = (ptr); \ ^ /tmp/modconfig-s61CNS/vmhgfs-only/inode.c:1920:7: note: in expansion of macro ‘hlist_for_each_entry’ hlist_for_each_entry(dentry, ^ include/linux/list.h:711:35: error: ‘struct dentry’ has no member named ‘d_alia’ pos = hlist_entry_safe((pos)->member.next, typeof(*(pos)), member)) ^ include/linux/list.h:698:28: note: in definition of macro ‘hlist_entry_safe’ ({ typeof(ptr) ____ptr = (ptr); \ ^ /tmp/modconfig-s61CNS/vmhgfs-only/inode.c:1920:7: note: in expansion of macro ‘hlist_for_each_entry’ hlist_for_each_entry(dentry, ^ In file included from include/linux/list.h:8:0, from include/linux/preempt.h:10, from include/linux/spinlock.h:50, from include/linux/mmzone.h:7, from include/linux/gfp.h:5, from include/linux/mm.h:9, from include/linux/pagemap.h:7, from /tmp/modconfig-s61CNS/vmhgfs-only/inode.c:29: include/linux/kernel.h:796:27: error: ‘struct dentry’ has no member named ‘d_alias’ const typeof( ((type *)0)->member ) *__mptr = (ptr); \ ^ include/linux/list.h:688:40: note: in expansion of macro ‘container_of’ #define hlist_entry(ptr, type, member) container_of(ptr,type,member) ^ include/linux/list.h:699:15: note: in expansion of macro ‘hlist_entry’ ____ptr ? hlist_entry(____ptr, type, member) : NULL; \ ^ include/linux/list.h:711:13: note: in expansion of macro ‘hlist_entry_safe’ pos = hlist_entry_safe((pos)->member.next, typeof(*(pos)), member)) ^ /tmp/modconfig-s61CNS/vmhgfs-only/inode.c:1920:7: note: in expansion of macro ‘hlist_for_each_entry’ hlist_for_each_entry(dentry, ^ include/linux/kernel.h:796:48: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast const typeof( ((type *)0)->member ) *__mptr = (ptr); \ ^ include/linux/list.h:688:40: note: in expansion of macro ‘container_of’ #define hlist_entry(ptr, type, member) container_of(ptr,type,member) ^ include/linux/list.h:699:15: note: in expansion of macro ‘hlist_entry’ ____ptr ? hlist_entry(____ptr, type, member) : NULL; \ ^ include/linux/list.h:711:13: note: in expansion of macro ‘hlist_entry_safe’ pos = hlist_entry_safe((pos)->member.next, typeof(*(pos)), member)) ^ /tmp/modconfig-s61CNS/vmhgfs-only/inode.c:1920:7: note: in expansion of macro ‘hlist_for_each_entry’ hlist_for_each_entry(dentry, ^ In file included from include/linux/compiler-gcc.h:106:0, from include/linux/compiler.h:54, from include/uapi/linux/stddef.h:1, from include/linux/stddef.h:4, from ./include/uapi/linux/posix_types.h:4, from include/uapi/linux/types.h:13, from include/linux/types.h:5, from /tmp/modconfig-s61CNS/vmhgfs-only/./shared/driver-config.h:71, from /tmp/modconfig-s61CNS/vmhgfs-only/inode.c:26: include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h:14:34: error: ‘struct dentry’ has no member named ‘d_alias’ #define __compiler_offsetof(a,b) __builtin_offsetof(a,b) ^ include/linux/stddef.h:17:31: note: in expansion of macro ‘__compiler_offsetof’ #define offsetof(TYPE,MEMBER) __compiler_offsetof(TYPE,MEMBER) ^ include/linux/kernel.h:797:29: note: in expansion of macro ‘offsetof’ (type *)( (char *)__mptr - offsetof(type,member) );}) ^ include/linux/list.h:688:40: note: in expansion of macro ‘container_of’ #define hlist_entry(ptr, type, member) container_of(ptr,type,member) ^ include/linux/list.h:699:15: note: in expansion of macro ‘hlist_entry’ ____ptr ? hlist_entry(____ptr, type, member) : NULL; \ ^ include/linux/list.h:711:13: note: in expansion of macro ‘hlist_entry_safe’ pos = hlist_entry_safe((pos)->member.next, typeof(*(pos)), member)) ^ /tmp/modconfig-s61CNS/vmhgfs-only/inode.c:1920:7: note: in expansion of macro ‘hlist_for_each_entry’ hlist_for_each_entry(dentry, ^ scripts/Makefile.build:257: recipe for target '/tmp/modconfig-s61CNS/vmhgfs-only/inode.o' failed make[2]: *** [/tmp/modconfig-s61CNS/vmhgfs-only/inode.o] Error 1 Makefile:1385: recipe for target '_module_/tmp/modconfig-s61CNS/vmhgfs-only' failed make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/modconfig-s61CNS/vmhgfs-only] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/kernels/3.18.8-201.fc21.x86_64' Makefile:120: recipe for target 'vmhgfs.ko' failed make: *** [vmhgfs.ko] Error 2 make: Leaving directory '/tmp/modconfig-s61CNS/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 ] 
