open-vm-dkms is unable to build drivers on Precise currently for both
the stock 3.2 kernel and the newer HWE
(https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack) kernels.
For those needing an HWE kernel in your Precise installation, the Saucy
or newer HWE kernels are supported by a new
Just as a note, the new kernels are not only needed on LTS for hardware
enablement (and I'm guessing relatively few people need hardware
enablement in a VMware guest), but also to run Docker, which I suspect
affects more people (me included).
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** Also affects: open-vm-tools (Ubuntu Precise)
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** Changed in: open-vm-tools (Ubuntu Precise)
Status: New = Confirmed
** Changed in: open-vm-tools (Ubuntu Precise)
getting error in saucy
Setting up open-vm-dkms (2013.04.16-1098359-0ubuntu1) ...
Loading new open-vm-tools-2013.04.16 DKMS files...
First Installation: checking all kernels...
Building only for 3.11.0-9-generic
Building for architecture x86_64
Building initial module for 3.11.0-9-generic
Error!
In saucy, it appears that vmxnet and vmblock are not needed (nor is
vmci). The vmxnet3 is distributed with the kernel, and in fact if you
use the installer from the latest vmware-tools ISO, it does not build
vmxnet since the installer script knows this.
vmblock required a bit of changes to work
This problem also affects 12.04 LTS, after installing linux-generic-lts-
raring-eol-upgrade for upgrading to a newer kernel.
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** Summary changed:
- open-vm-dkms 2011.12.20-562307-0ubuntu1: open-vm-tools kernel module failed
to build
+ open-vm-dkms 2011.12.20-562307-0ubuntu1: open-vm-tools kernel module failed
to build [error: implicit declaration of function ‘d_alloc_root’]
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