[Bug 776103] Re: package open-vm-dkms 2011.03.28-387002-0ubuntu2 fails to build against 2.6.39 kernels, due to missing linux/smp_lock.h

[dj_palindrome]

Nate, I wish I was more than a newcomer; I'd gladly help you, since I am
getting obsessed to an unhealthy and unnatural degree with making VMware
work from am end-user perspective. I realize this is sick ;-)

If I weren't so frustrated that the Debian "package maintainers" seem to
be indifferent, absent, clueless, or just paralyzed, I wouldn't have
reached out to my Ubuntu brothers. Debian has had grave bug reports for
at least four months on their totally obsolete, supposedly "latest"
version of Tools and hasn't even classified any of them. Much less
uploaded a new package to unstable or experimental.

So I was reaching out to you in desperation; I had you pegged as someone
actively working to get a solution I could steal.

So while I'm sorry for treading on your ppa, I *have* successfully
installed ppa9 in a "semi-Oneiric" Natty (basically a 3.0.1 kernel with
as much of the internals and build infrasturucture upgraded as I can
without breaking my desktop, which is fragile because, of course, VMware
doesn't support direct-rendering in linux guests). DMKS built all
modules without any problems whatsoever.

I would like only to observe that distro package maintainers have to
look thought the eyes of the recipient to ensure that end-users will
have a good experience. This is what I mean:

* Even if shared folders are always enabled in the host, the guest will
not auto-mount them. Timing issues in loading the necessary modules
makes using fstab problematic.

* Drag and Drop operations from the *host* to *guest* will fail because
the open-vm-tools initialization does not seem to provide the necessary
environment, and once created, that environment is volatile, since
VMwareDnD has to be created in \tmp.

After doing some reading, I've modified the startup section of my
/etc/init.d/open-vm-tools as follows (I make no claim about knowing what
I'm doing, or that it is sufficiently general):

log_daemon_msg "mounting hgfs shares"
		mount -t vmhgfs .host:/ /mnt/hgfs
		log_end_msg 0
if [ ! -d /tmp/VMwareDnD ] 
		then
			log_daemon_msg "making a directory on the guest to store files for DnD"
			mkdir /tmp/VMwareDnD
			chmod 1777 /tmp/VMwareDnD
			log_end_msg 0
fi
log_daemon_msg "mounting vmblock for DnD"
mount -t vmblock none /proc/fs/vmblock/mountPoint
log_end_msg 0

Source: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/open-vm-
tools/index.php?title=Packaging

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  package open-vm-dkms 2011.03.28-387002-0ubuntu2 fails to build against
  2.6.39 kernels, due to missing linux/smp_lock.h

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