Fix issue with VMWare builds: "Waiting for HGFS kernel module to load..." about ansible-role-packer_rhel HOT 5 CLOSED

Also, I can confirm that this is happening with at least CentOS 6.6; I haven't tested thoroughly on CentOS 7.x yet.

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Fix is in code, now I just need to rebuild some packer boxes and put them up on Atlas/Vagrant Cloud.

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For CentOS 7, there is no simple installation via RPM, it seems. So far I can get HGFS working if I manually install gcc + kernel headers (with uname -r so kernel-devel-[kernel]), then go through the gauntlet:

# After mounting the ISO on `/dev/cdrom` with 'Reinstall VMware tools' menu item.
mkdir /mnt/cdrom
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
cd /tmp
tar zxpf /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-xxxxxxx.tar.gz
umount /dev/cdrom
cd vmware-tools-distrib
# Watch the output of this command very closely. No decent error detection :P.
./vmware-install.pl --default

After doing that and a vagrant reload, the HGFS mounts work properly. Ugh.

Working on rebuilding the Packer box a few more times before I pull out more of my hair.

References:

• VMWare Tools for Linux Guests
• CentOS 6.2 VMware Tools Install the Easy Way

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Might have to do something like:

• Manually mount/run/unmount VMware tools
• Same thing, different ideas

Supposedly (according to everything I've read), just installing open-vm-tools should be enough for CentOS 7/RHEL7, but this seems not to be the case from what I've been experiencing :(

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Fixed.

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