Neither the vmware supplied hgfs module nor the hgfs module from the open-vm-tools compiles on my machine running a 3.12 linux kernel.
The kernel was obviously configured with UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS and the module is not using those types.
How can I get this resolved?
Well, for the time beeing, until a proper fix has been released, you can go, grab and try my
It compiles here and works so far without issues.
Anyway, use is at your own risk, i just offer it here to spare some of us the time digging into the code ...
replace the original vmhgfs.tar in
/usr/lib/vmware-tools/modules/source
with the modified one and run vmware-config-tools.pl which should now
successfully compile the module.