The only solution for now is to upgrade to vmware workstation 10. To then make mounting globally persistent add the following line to your etcfstabhost. Manually installing vmware tools on a linux virtual machine. For interest sake, tkl have a webmin samba module in their repo too, so for tkl appliances you can also aptget install. Then underneath the mnt hgfs should be the repo folder and your host files. Get latest updates about open source projects, conferences and news. It appears that when you install openvmtools on ubuntu 16. By default mounting a folder using root which you must do will result in that folder being only available to. In the ubuntu vm mount does not list the mnthgfs and doing an ls al mnthgfs.
Vmware hgfs provider shared folders not working issue. How to install vmware tools including mounting hgfs successfully. This must be installed either through vmware tools or open vm tools. You are not prompted to run the vmware tools vmwareconfigtools. If you wish to have the vmci feature, you can install the driver by running vmwareconfigtools. Linux newbie this linux forum is for members that are new to linux. This answer also assumes that you are not using vmware tools from vmware but instead using openvmtools from your linux distribution. If it is not in the man pages or the howtos this is the place. Please install either the vmware tools or open vm tools and try again. Over the years since i wrote this i found another couple useful options for mounting guest folders that ive included below. Let me know if this still doesnt work for you but it. Hgfs was never found on the running virtual machine. Vmware shared folder enabled but no folder under mnt hgfs user name. How to install vmware tools including mounting hgfs.
For me, it turned out that vmwarehgfsmounter was not installed ubuntu 12. After you have enabled a shared folder, you can mount one or more directories or. The mount in the guest does not seems to have it by. For old linux virtual machines not supported by open vm tools, perform the following steps to install tar.
For some reason, the autoinstalled vmware tools didnt do the job, but ubuntu has a tool called vmwarehgfsmounter, if i installed it then i could do this. One weird thing i did notice was after doing this they did not appear right away. Mounting shared folders in a linux guest vmware docs. Allow hgfs mount on openvmtools ericsysmins devops blog. Debian 9 vmware fusion 10 wont work with shared folders issue.
Vmware workstation shared folders between windows and. No mnthgfs in ubuntu guest under vmware fusion super user. Mounting the shared folder as vmhgfs under ubuntu 18. After that finishes installing, reboot the vm, and check under mnt hgfs to see if your shared folders appear. How do i mount shared folders in ubuntu using vmware tools.
After you enable a shared folder, you can mount one or more directories or subdirectories in the shared folder to any location in the file system in addition to the default location of mnt hgfs depending on the kernel version of the linux guest operating system, vmware tools uses different components to provide shared folder functionality. It seems the vmware tools and the hgfs mounter do not go hand in hand. Hgfs is required for shared folders to work properly. The rest of the software provided by vmware tools is designed to work independently of this feature. I know i should probably use the vmware hgfsclient tool, but i realy dont know how. My way of solving this issue is to resort to vmhgfsfuse installed with openvmtools. I know i should probably use the vmwarehgfsclient tool, but i realy dont know how. Vmware shared folder enabled but no folder under mnthgfs. And i was going to mention worst case scenario, try samba. The mount can fail if shared folders are disabled or if the share does not exist. If your distribution uses automounting, do not use the mount and umount commands below. I actually went into the shared folders, and added another folder under my current user account on the host, and voila for some reason they both showed up. Usually, the shared folder will show up under mnthgfs folder.
Vmware fusion mounting shared directories macos host, linux. If you run the above as root either sudo or su you should have the mount appear as before for all users. The shared folders is not automatically mount for me. Therefore this answer also assumes that your version of ubuntu can install the openvmtools from its software repository. We that bought a license of vmware workstation 9 are unable to use shared folders hgfs hostguest file system. What is weird is that it used to work, but not anymore i dont know what happened between, maybe an ubuntu update broke it all. Check the folder exists and if not use as root mkdir mnt hgfs usrbinvmhgfsfuse. After you enable a shared folder, you can mount one or more directories or. After installing that module, i was able to mount my share as descibed above.