Ask Ubuntu is a question and answer site for Ubuntu users and developers. It only takes a minute to sign up. 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.

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Modified 3 months ago. Viewed k times. I wouldn’t ask if I could understand the vmware-hgfsclient help I’ve read. Any suggestions? Improve this question. Braiam V-Light V-Light 2, 3 3 gold badges 14 14 silver badges 9 9 bronze badges. The steps in this article wingfoss. Add a comment. Sorted by: Reset to default.

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Hrishikesh Kadam 1 1 silver badge 9 9 bronze badges. This should be the accepted answer; the other answers are completely out of date. Works for Ubuntu Can confirm, on Ubuntu Specifically, sudo vmhgfs-fuse.

V-Light: please change the accepted answer to this one. Show 2 more comments. I have set up on Windows 7 host with Ubuntu Azizur Rahman Azizur Rahman 1, 1 1 gold badge 9 9 silver badges 10 10 bronze badges.

So I should use on of them? When you do sudo mount -t vmhgfs. What you might be wanting to do is making is easy for you to use shared folders for that try above. Re-running sudo vmware-config-tools. Show 8 more comments. William 3 3 gold badges 9 9 silver badges 28 28 bronze badges. In that case user must use vmware-hgfsmounter as snth describes in his answer.

It may be possible to use open-vm-toolbox , tools and components for VMware guest systems GUI tools package from the Ubuntu software repository — Mark Mikofski. Also note that vmware-hgfsmounter is equivalent to mount -t vmhgfs.

Mark Mikofski Mark Mikofski 1, 1 1 gold badge 14 14 silver badges 23 23 bronze badges. Gave an error “share name is invalid”. This syntax worked, however: vmware-hgfsmounter. Thanks AlexanderRechsteiner. Your syntax is probably better as it is more general. It may be a list, and that might be the problem.

Show 1 more comment. As follows sudo apt-get purge open-vm-tools sudo apt-get purge open-vm-tools-dkms and reinstalled vmware-tools. Jason 5 5 bronze badges. Peretz Peretz 3 3 gold badges 8 8 silver badges 13 13 bronze badges. Great point, I needed this after having uninstalled the vmware-tools manually and dkms was the one still providing some kernel modules. Uninstalling and reinstalling is a “windows newbie recipe”, not a good practice.

After an Ubuntu upgrade that broke my sharing, an hour of trying lots of various things failed I purged my installed open-vm-tools, installed the linux headers and image packages you mentioned, then reinstalled the vmtools.

I still do not have a loaded vmhgfs module nor can I load one it doesn’t exist. I cannot get the shared files to work with the open-vm-tools packages. I’m going to try the manual install of vmware tools mentioned in other answers.

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When this feature is enabled, users will be able to easily copy clipboard content between guests and hosts. VMware Workstation includes the ability to group multiple virtual machines in an inventory folder. In order to edit user permissions, right click the Shared VMs folder and select Permissions. Note: if you use the WSX installer v.