How to access hard drive in OpenSuse 11.4 running on VMWare?

Question

I am using OpenSuse 11.4 through VMWare. I also have OpenSuse 11.2 and I can access the hard drive by mounting it, i.e :

sudo mount -t vmhgfs .host:/ /mnt/myDriveF

However, I'm not able to do this in OpenSuse 11.4. It's saying :

Error: cannot mount filesystem: No such device

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 09 '11 at 03:29

Seems the problem is the result of some changes in the 2.3.36 kernel.

During build of the vmware-tools, the necessary vmhgfs module throws the following error message:

/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmhgfs-only/super.c:73: error: unknown field ‘clear_inode’ specified in initializer

Root of the problem is that the clear_inode() function has been renamed evict_indode().

So -- simply patch the source code of the corresponding part of the vmhgfs driverand rebuild the tools in 5 easy steps I nicked from here: http://vmware-forum.de/viewtopic.php?t=21774

Go to /usr/lib/vmware-tools/modules/source and unpack vmhgfs.tar
cd into the new directory and open 'super.c' in your favorite editor

Change the following:

#ifndef VMW_USE_IGET_LOCKED
   .read_inode    = HgfsReadInode,
#endif
   **.clear_inode   = HgfsClearInode,**
   .put_super     = HgfsPutSuper,
   .statfs        = HgfsStatfs,
};

To read:

#ifndef VMW_USE_IGET_LOCKED
   .read_inode    = HgfsReadInode,
#endif
   **.evict_inode   = HgfsClearInode,**
   .put_super     = HgfsPutSuper,
   .statfs        = HgfsStatfs,
};

Save the file and repack everything into vmhgfs.tar
Run vmware-config-tools.pl

How to access hard drive in OpenSuse 11.4 running on VMWare?

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