Ubuntu
open-vm-tools package

  1. Bug #332323
  2. Comment #1

Comment 1 for bug 332323

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William Cattey (wdc-mit) wrote :

Attached is a patch that adds in the necessary code for vmware-user-suid-wrapper
to properly modprobe to remove and add the vmblock module.
I tried very hard to follow the style conventions of the existing code.

One thing that's a bit kludgy: The platform independent code thinks it should create
the vmblock directory in /proc/fs. Under linux, that's done in the vmblock kernel module
initialization. I chose to add a platform specific "if !defined(linux)" to the platform
independent code in main. Others may want a different style.

**IMPORTANT** NONE of this will work unless one more packaging mistake is corrected:

vmware-user-suid-wrapper is currently not installed suid root.
To do its work properly it must be installed suid root.