Mounting the shared folder as vmhgfs under ubuntu 18. 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. 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. After installing that module, i was able to mount my share as descibed above. No mnthgfs in ubuntu guest under vmware fusion super user. Vmware hgfs provider shared folders not working issue. The rest of the software provided by vmware tools is designed to work independently of this feature. This answer also assumes that you are not using vmware tools from vmware but instead using openvmtools from your linux distribution. Please install either the vmware tools or open vm tools and try again.
One weird thing i did notice was after doing this they did not appear right away. If you run the above as root either sudo or su you should have the mount appear as before for all users. Hgfs was never found on the running virtual machine. Usually, the shared folder will show up under mnthgfs folder. Linux newbie this linux forum is for members that are new to linux. If you wish to have the vmci feature, you can install the driver by running vmwareconfigtools. Therefore this answer also assumes that your version of ubuntu can install the openvmtools from its software repository. For the linux virtual machines that have open vm tools installed but are not in the scope mentioned in the preceding bullet, installupdatereinstall vmware tools menu is enabled, so that you can install bundled tar tools on top of open vm tools to get shared folder hgfs feature support. Vmware fusion mounting shared directories macos host, linux. This must be installed either through vmware tools or open vm tools.
After you have enabled a shared folder, you can mount one or more directories or. I was having the same problem, not being able to mount hgfs at all. Vmware workstation shared folders between windows and. And i was going to mention worst case scenario, try samba. Get latest updates about open source projects, conferences and news.
How to install vmware tools including mounting hgfs. For interest sake, tkl have a webmin samba module in their repo too, so for tkl appliances you can also aptget install. If it is not in the man pages or the howtos this is the place. In the ubuntu vm mount does not list the mnthgfs and doing an ls al mnthgfs. How to install vmware tools including mounting hgfs successfully. By default mounting a folder using root which you must do will result in that folder being only available to. Check the folder exists and if not use as root mkdir mnt hgfs usrbinvmhgfsfuse. After that finishes installing, reboot the vm, and check under mnt hgfs to see if your shared folders appear. For me, it turned out that vmwarehgfsmounter was not installed ubuntu 12. The mount in the guest does not seems to have it by.
To then make mounting globally persistent add the following line to your etcfstabhost. You are not prompted to run the vmware tools vmwareconfigtools. 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. 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. Manually installing vmware tools on a linux virtual machine. How do i mount shared folders in ubuntu using vmware tools. If the mount fails, a message appears regarding mounting hgfs shares. Allow hgfs mount on openvmtools ericsysmins devops blog. Then underneath the mnt hgfs should be the repo folder and your host files. Hgfs is required for shared folders to work properly.
It seems the vmware tools and the hgfs mounter do not go hand in hand. For old linux virtual machines not supported by open vm tools, perform the following steps to install tar. Vmware shared folder enabled but no folder under mnthgfs. The only solution for now is to upgrade to vmware workstation 10. Let me know if this still doesnt work for you but it. The mount can fail if shared folders are disabled or if the share does not exist. Vmware shared folder enabled but no folder under mnt hgfs user name.
Mounting shared folders in a linux guest vmware docs. It appears that when you install openvmtools on ubuntu 16. We that bought a license of vmware workstation 9 are unable to use shared folders hgfs hostguest file system. Debian 9 vmware fusion 10 wont work with shared folders issue. If your distribution uses automounting, do not use the mount and umount commands below.