[Bug 1272196] Re: vmhgfs doesn't work with linux 3.13 kernel

[Michael Bienia]

The version of open-vm-tools-dkms is 2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu2.
My fstab entry is:
.host:/		/mnt/hgfs	vmhgfs	defaults,noauto	0	0

With Linux ubuntu 3.12.0-7-generic #15-Ubuntu SMP Sun Dec 8 23:39:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux:
After a "sudo modprobe vmhgfs" dmesg contains only
[21813.018552] vmhgfs: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel
as a new entry.

$ sudo mount /mnt/hgfs/
$ ls /mnt/hgfs/
Documents  Pictures
(those 2 directories are the configured shared folder in my VMware Player)

$ modinfo vmhgfs
filename:       /lib/modules/3.12.0-7-generic/updates/dkms/vmhgfs.ko
supported:      external
alias:          vmware_vmhgfs
license:        GPL v2
version:        1.4.1.1
description:    VMware Host/Guest File System
author:         VMware, Inc.
srcversion:     F51BF051960489CEB001EA2
depends:        vmw_vmci
vermagic:       3.12.0-7-generic SMP mod_unload modversions 
parm:           USE_VMCI:int
parm:           HOST_IP:charp
parm:           HOST_PORT:int
parm:           HOST_VSOCKET_PORT:int

With Linux ubuntu 3.13.0-5-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jan 20 19:56:38 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux:
After a "sudo modprobe vmhgfs" dmesg also contains only
[  136.135867] vmhgfs: module verification failed: signature and/or  required key missing - tainting kernel
as a new entry

$ sudo mount /mnt/hgfs/
(no error and no new entries in dmesg)
$ ls /mnt/hgfs/
ls: cannot access /mnt/hgfs/: Not a directory

$ modinfo vmhgfs
filename:       /lib/modules/3.13.0-5-generic/updates/dkms/vmhgfs.ko
supported:      external
alias:          vmware_vmhgfs
license:        GPL v2
version:        1.4.1.1
description:    VMware Host/Guest File System
author:         VMware, Inc.
srcversion:     F51BF051960489CEB001EA2
depends:        vmw_vmci
vermagic:       3.13.0-5-generic SMP mod_unload modversions 
parm:           USE_VMCI:int
parm:           HOST_IP:charp
parm:           HOST_PORT:int
parm:           HOST_VSOCKET_PORT:int

$ ls -l /lib/modules/*/updates/dkms/vmhgfs.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 103216 Jan 27 08:34 /lib/modules/3.12.0-7-generic/updates/dkms/vmhgfs.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 102976 Jan 27 08:35 /lib/modules/3.13.0-5-generic/updates/dkms/vmhgfs.ko

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  vmhgfs doesn't work with linux 3.13 kernel

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