VMware tools: vsock and vmhgfs does not work

Question

I'm trying to install the recent VMware tools in an LFS system (kernel 3.16.2).

First, I compiled the kernel with all vmware stuff enabled, which left only vmhgfs to be managed by VMware tools. The installation was successful, but vmhgfs and vmci components reported failure at startup.

Since vmci loads before vmhgfs, I decided to fix it first. I removed vmci and vsock from the kernel and let VMware tools take care of it. After a tiny patch of vsock code (sk_data_ready issue), I managed to install the tools in this configuration. Now vmci loads successfully, but vsock fails to load.

Reading system log I found this:

Jan 18 04:34:46 titov-lfs vmusr[3345]: [ warning] [vmusr] SOCKET failed to create socket, error 97: Adress family not supported by protocol
Jan 18 04:34:46 titov-lfs vmusr[3345]: [ warning] [vmusr] SimpleSock: Couldn't get VMCI socket family info. 

When trying to mount shared folder I receive this:

root [ ~ ]# mount -t vmhgfs .host:/ /mnt/hgfs
Error: cannot mount filesystem: No such device

I've enabled VMware tools logging, but these logs show nothing interesting.

I'm stuck for now. Any ideas on how to debug and fix this? May be I am missing some important stuff in the kernel?

UPDATE:

I found out that

modprobe vsock
modprobe vmhgfs
mount -t vmhgfs .host:/ /mnt/hgfs

works fine, so the problem lies somewhere in the bootscript.

Answer 1

Finally, I managed to resolve the issue.

I found the way to run VMware tools init script in debug mode. To do this one needs to add

VMWARE_DEBUG="yes" 

in the begining of the script.

After that the problem became evident. The script was calling /sbin/lsmod , however LFS installs lsmod in /bin . A symlink fixed the issue.