Vmware tools mnt hgfs

I did the same in fstab i. Thanks a lot for sharing this info. Can confirm this also works on PopOS I haven't tested with Ubuntu It's good news that they seem to have fixed the issue that required the rc. You're probably better off using autofs rather than putting an entry in fstab. As the author pointed out, bad things can happen if the mount cannot happen at the proper point in the boot process and you have an entry in fstab that for whatever reason can't mount, blowing the boot process out of the water.

With autofs, the mount doesn't occur until you actually try to stat below the mount point. Confirmed, in Kubuntu Ubuntu I am using VMware Fusion Skip to content. Sign in Sign up. Instantly share code, notes, and snippets. Last active Dec 31, Code Revisions 13 Stars 87 Forks Embed What would you like to do? Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. I've successfully installed VMware tools for Ubuntu.

Everything seems to work fine, but shared folders were not mounted automatically. How do I get them to work? I know I should probably use the vmware-hgfsclient tool, but I realy don't know how.

You may have use a specific folder instead of. In that case you can find out the share's name with vmware-hgfsclient. For example:. I choose to mount them on demand and have them ignored by sudo mount -a and the such with the noauto option, because I noticed the shares have an impact on VM performance.

I am using ubuntu desktop so use other text editor to enter the next line at the end of the file. Restart your vm You may need to restart few times or get error message saying unable to mount just skip the error and restart. The executable vmware-hgfsmounter has not been available in Ubuntu since Although, hgfsmounter may still be available on other Linux distributions, since the hgfsmounter function is still currently available in the upstream source code on GitHub.

If anyone has updated information, please comment or edit this answer, instead of down-voting, as I believe this answer may still be valid for older Ubuntu releases. VMWare decided to support this switch in See KB Therefore this answer also assumes that your version of Ubuntu can install the open-vm-tools from it's software repository. This worked for me using open-vm-tools from Ubuntu Software Center trusty Note that vmware-hgfsclient returns the list of shared folders that are enabled in the VMware Player settings.

This function is available for both open-vm-tools and vmware-tools. Also note that vmware-hgfsmounter is equivalent to. But the vmware-hgfsmounter function is not available using the official vmware-tools from VMware that ships with the current VMware player. Therefore, as the currently accepted answer suggests, running the vmware-config-tools.

I had a similar problem. As follows. I had this exact problem. It turned out IT had installed some old version of VMWare tools with non-functioning vmhgfs kernel module. My solution was to run the configuration with the clobber-kernel-modules setting to overwrite the existing vmhgfs module.

Using that info I then ran the following which worked for me:. You need to install the VMWare tools first, after that the vmware-config-tools can be used globally. For a more detailed guide, you can see here. The default is 'no' and you may have skipped over it when hitting enter. If you can't still mount shared folders after installing vmware-tools , here is the resolution.

Previously, I couldn't mount windows shared folder after installing vmware tools. Finally, I got resolved this share folder mounting issue by installing open-vm-dkms. Just add the below line in the start function.

VMWare: A workaround for this problem is to edit 'inode. This file is inside 'vmware-tools-distrib', so you need to perform the following steps:. Ubuntu Community Ask! Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.

Stephen Kitt k 45 45 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Chad Chad 71 1 1 silver badge 3 3 bronze badges. I can confirm this solution worked like a charm. Stephen is a gentleman! Nickon I am glad that my answer was able to help you! Is the Stephen that are you talking about in your comment Stephen Kitt? First of all you need to create a folder where the mount should be pointed to. Stan K Stan K 85 1 1 silver badge 6 6 bronze badges. I tried this in Parrot OS, worked as it is a Debian, sudo less.

How come I don't create the folder, it is there when running sudo vmware-hgfsclient, but when I try to vmhgfs-fuse, it tells me it isn't there? Edward 1, 2 2 gold badges 13 13 silver badges 20 20 bronze badges. Gary Nowels Gary Nowels 11 1 1 bronze badge. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name.