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

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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Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen at ...> writes:
> 
> try modprobe vmhgfs
I get:

modprobe: FATAL: Module vmhgfs not found:

Is it supposed to be shipped with open-vm-tools?

I haven't been able to re-compile the vmware tools myself.


Thanks


Bob

Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen at ...> writes:
> 
> try modprobe vmhgfs
> 
under open-vm-tools, the only module I know about is vmtoolsd and it is running:

[root at imp yum.repos.d]# systemctl status vmtoolsd
vmtoolsd.service - Service for virtual machines hosted on VMware
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/vmtoolsd.service; enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Thu 2015-08-06 18:49:02 AEST; 3 days ago
     Docs: http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/about.php
 Main PID: 806 (vmtoolsd)
   CGroup: /system.slice/vmtoolsd.service
           ??806 /usr/bin/vmtoolsd

open-vm-tools appears to know about hgfs as it has an eponymous file:

/usr/lib64/open-vm-tools/plugins/common/libhgfsServer.so

and:

[root at imp yum.repos.d]# /usr/bin/vmware-hgfsclient
shared

Is there something else I need to do to get this working?


Thanks


Bob

Bob Hepple <bob.hepple at ...> writes:
> 
> Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen <at> ...> writes:
> 
> > 
> > try modprobe vmhgfs
> > 
> 
> under open-vm-tools, the only module I know about is vmtoolsd and it is
running:
> 
Arghhh! Of course vmtoolsd is not a module, it's a service! Here are the
modules that could be something to do with vmware:

[root at imp ~]# lsmod |grep vm
vmw_balloon            13415  0 
vmw_vmci               67106  0 
vmwgfx                179730  2 
drm_kms_helper         98226  1 vmwgfx
ttm                    93488  1 vmwgfx
drm                   311588  5 ttm,drm_kms_helper,vmwgfx

Cheers

Bob