CentOS - Aug 2015 - Shared folders with Centos-7 guest in VMware-10 using open-vm-tools

Hi!

Just wondering if anyone has this working ...

Centos-7 guest in VMware-10 host (on Windows-7 :-( )

Out of the box, shared folders and drag&drop do not work although X screen 
resolution sensing is fine (ie xrandr reports the resolution of the host 
screen as well as the peculiar screen options built-in) and I can Alt-Enter 
to full screen quite happily.

I tried Fedora-22 too but did not even get that far.

It's the shared folder that I would really like to get working. vmware-
hgfsclient reports my share but there is no /mnt/hgfs directory. Also 
'lsmod|grep hgfs' reports nothing.

'systemctl restart vmtoolsd' (bah!) does not help.

Thanks


Bob

Bob Hepple <bob.hepple at ...> writes:
> It's the shared folder that I would really like to get working. vmware-
> hgfsclient reports my share but there is no /mnt/hgfs directory. Also 
> 'lsmod|grep hgfs' reports nothing.
> 
also:

mount -t vmhgfs .host:/ /mnt/tmp
mount: unknown filesystem type 'vmhgfs'

... which kinda sorta tells me I need to modprobe something.

I reckon I'm sooooo close, just need a nudge to get it over the line!!

Any ideas out there?


Cheers


Bob

try modprobe vmhgfs

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Eero

2015-08-07 6:53 GMT+03:00 Bob Hepple <bob.hepple at gmail.com>:
> Bob Hepple <bob.hepple at ...> writes:
>
> > It's the shared folder that I would really like to get working.
vmware-
> > hgfsclient reports my share but there is no /mnt/hgfs directory. Also
> > 'lsmod|grep hgfs' reports nothing.
> >
>
> also:
>
> mount -t vmhgfs .host:/ /mnt/tmp
> mount: unknown filesystem type 'vmhgfs'
>
> ... which kinda sorta tells me I need to modprobe something.
>
> I reckon I'm sooooo close, just need a nudge to get it over the line!!
>
> Any ideas out there?
>
>
> Cheers
>
>
> Bob
>
>
>
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Bob Hepple <bob.hepple at ...> writes:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Just wondering if anyone has this working ...
> 
> Centos-7 guest in VMware-10 host (on Windows-7  )
> 
Just to report my resolution of this one - no-one has been able to report 
success with vmware-tools with VMware-10, Windows-7 host, Centos-7 guest so 
far.

So I tried Centos-6.7 and all is well after installing vmware-tools from the 
tarball provided by vmware - screen resolution, auto-sensing and shared 
folder.

Centos-6.7 is fine for me and I'll be living there instead of the nightmare 
desktop provided by the employer.

Cheers


Bob