Folks,
I am running VMWare Workstation for Windows 9.0.2 build-1031769 on Win7 x64 laptop.
I have a Ubuntu 11.04 x64 VM.
In the VM, I am compiling some C code where the files are on a 'HGFS' based shared folder mapped to a drive on my Windows host NTFS drive.
I am getting an error "Value too large for defined data type" on some files.
This was not happening when I was with Workstation v9.0.1.
When I upgraded to 9.0.2, I updated the VMWare Tools in the Ubuntu VM to 9.2.3.21136 (build-1031360).
When upgrading the VMWare Tools in VM, the installation triggered compilation of hdfs driver for linux and some other components related to tools.
When I removed the VMware tools 9.2.3.21136 and went back to 9.2.2.18018 (build-893683) (shipped with Workstation v9.0.1), things are working fine.
(NOTE: I just downgraded the VMware tools, I am still using Workstation 9.0.2 and things are still fine).
So looks like HGFS in VMware tools for Linux v9.2.3.21136 is broken?
Potentialy I think this has to do with 'stat' returning some incorrect values.
Has any one seen this problem? Any solutions?
Thanks,
Manish