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  1. tpberntsen created this gist Apr 11, 2015.
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    # /bin/bash

    ##
    # A script which patches VMware Tools to mitigate the HGFS compilation problems with Ubuntu 14.04
    #
    # Prerequisites:
    # 1) You have extracted VMware Tools onto a writable media
    # 2) You have cd'ed into the "vmware-tools-distrib" folder
    # 3) You actually know what you're doing executing shell scripts :-)
    #
    # Author: https://github.com/tpberntsen
    # Responsibility: The author assumes no responsibility what so ever for any effects of you running this script.
    # Background: https://github.com/rasa/vmware-tools-patches/issues/29
    # Attributions: vshoener for describing the steps needed: https://github.com/rasa/vmware-tools-patches/issues/29#issuecomment-76469889
    # Searchability tags: vmware tools, ‘struct dentry’ has no member named ‘d_alias’, VMware Tools 9.9.0 build-2304977
    ##

    # Enter the folder where all the sources are located
    pushd lib/modules/source

    # Decompress the archive containing the source files for the HGFS integration
    tar xzvf vmhgfs.tar

    # Enter the folder containing decompressed source files for the HGFS integration
    pushd vmhgfs-only

    # Patch the file causing the error (replacing occurrences of "d_alias" with "d_u.d_alias" across the file)
    sed -i 's/d_alias/d_u.d_alias/g' lib/modules/source/vmhgfs-only/inode.c

    # Exit the source folder
    popd

    # Create a new archiove
    tar czvf vmhgfs.tar vmhgfs-only

    # Exit the source folder
    popd

    # You are now ready to (re)install the VMware Tools by running "sudo ./vmware-install.pl"