vmhgfs kernel module missing entirely on trusty

[Robert Xiao]

I uninstalled the old vmware tools and did `sudo apt-get install open-vm-tools`. After a reboot, `modprobe vmhgfs` fails with `modprobe: FATAL: Module vmhgfs not found.`. Mounting also fails: `mount -t vmhgfs .host:/ /mnt/hgfs/` fails with `Error: cannot mount filesystem: No such device` (/mnt/hgfs was previously created as a plain empty directory).

Installing open-vm-dkms and open-vm-tools-dkms does not help.

I'm running Trusty Tahr (Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS) in the server (no-GUI) configuration, and kernel version "3.16.0-57-generic #77~14.04.1-Ubuntu". The version of open-vm-tools I have is 9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu6.2 (the latest).

Shared folder support is, in short, completely broken right now on trusty. Based on the file list and the apt-get install process, it doesn't even look like it's attempting to build a kernel driver (I have the necessary headers, along with build-essentials installed).

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Ivan Kozik (ludios)]

vmhgfs also seems to be missing on xenial. I build it myself as a workaround: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/issues/62#issuecomment-218369113