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Error `Waiting for HGFS kernel module to load` during `vagrant up --provider=vmware_fusion`

Getting this error during vagrant up --provider=vmware_fusion:

[default] Waiting for HGFS kernel module to load... The HGFS kernel module was not found on the running virtual machine. This must be installed for shared folders to work properly. Please install the VMware tools within the guest and try again. Note that the VMware tools installation will succeed even if HGFS fails to properly install. Carefully read the output of the VMware tools installation to verify the HGFS kernel modules were installed properly.

Googling, I see that this is related to the problem

$ lsmod | grep -i '^vmhgfs' $

but I'm not clear what the solution is.

I've installed VMWare tools in my base vmx that is being built by packer:

$ vmware- vmware-checkvm vmware-uninstall-tools.pl vmware-config-tools.pl vmware-user vmware-hgfsclient vmware-vmblock-fuse vmware-rpctool vmware-xdg-detect-de vmware-toolbox-cmd vmware-xferlogs

I also enabled Shared Folders in the VMWare settings

Any ideas what I can do?

Solution

  • Answered by @mitchellh on twitter

    VMWare tools installation is silently failing during install because of missing gcc and linux headers. I didn't see the error because I was running sudo ./vmware-install.pl -d which doesn't stop on failure.

    To fix the problem install prerequisites:

    sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r)

    Then reinstall VMWare tools (without the -d flag to make sure everything works properly)

    sudo ./vmware-install.pl