After doing a distribution upgrade from Kubuntu 12.10 to 13.04, when I reinstall vmware tools I'm getting errors in the "vmhgfs module" part of the install. This is preventing the filesystem driver from working it seems. Full text of the install process is here, and the area with the errors is lines 285-358. Things seem to fall apart after...
/tmp/modconfig-ZJ54iS/vmhgfs-only/inode.c:888:4: error: implicit declaration of function ‘vmtruncate’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
Without this module, I'm unable to share host folders with the guest directly. All dependencies are installed, ie: make, gcc, binutils, kernel-headers; and detected properly.