Anybody knows how to get VMware Tools working for the latest Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial?
I've been using the patches from here
for my Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid, which works fine. But not any more for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial. Error enclosed below.
Without VMware Tools working, I'm unable to see the hgfs
shared from the host.
Looking up the error, from github, it says
With open-vm-tools 10.0, there is no need to build vmhgfs module anymore. This is not required because HGFS implementation is FUSE based in 10.0.
So I removed VMware Tools, then installed the official open-vm-tools
:
$ apt-cache policy open-vm-tools
open-vm-tools:
Installed: 2:10.0.7-3227872-2ubuntu2
Candidate: 2:10.0.7-3227872-2ubuntu2
Version table:
*** 2:10.0.7-3227872-2ubuntu2 500
...
$ apt-cache search hgfs | wc
0 0 0
$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
udev 481988 0 481988 0% /dev
tmpfs 99852 4548 95304 5% /run
/dev/sda1 31863728 1699600 28522504 6% /
tmpfs 499248 0 499248 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 499248 0 499248 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
But, I'm still unable to see the hgfs
shared from the host.
Thanks
/tmp/modconfig-VJIcMa/vmhgfs-only/link.c:59:21: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type [-Wincompatible-pointer-types]
.follow_link = HgfsFollowlink,
^
/tmp/modconfig-VJIcMa/vmhgfs-only/link.c:59:21: note: (near initialization for ‘HgfsLinkInodeOperations.follow_link’)
/tmp/modconfig-VJIcMa/vmhgfs-only/link.c:61:21: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type [-Wincompatible-pointer-types]
.put_link = HgfsPutlink,
^
/tmp/modconfig-VJIcMa/vmhgfs-only/link.c:61:21: note: (near initialization for ‘HgfsLinkInodeOperations.put_link’)
/tmp/modconfig-VJIcMa/vmhgfs-only/link.c: In function ‘HgfsFollowlink’:
/tmp/modconfig-VJIcMa/vmhgfs-only/link.c:127:10: error: implicit declaration of function ‘nd_set_link’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
nd_set_link(nd, fileName);
^
/tmp/modconfig-VJIcMa/vmhgfs-only/link.c: In function ‘HgfsPutlink’:
/tmp/modconfig-VJIcMa/vmhgfs-only/link.c:276:15: error: implicit declaration of function ‘nd_get_link’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
fileName = nd_get_link(nd);
^
/tmp/modconfig-VJIcMa/vmhgfs-only/link.c:276:13: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast [-Wint-conversion]
fileName = nd_get_link(nd);
^
$ uname -a
Linux uname 4.4.0-21-generic #37-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 18 18:33:37 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Best Answer
Check out the "vmhgfs-fuse" command.
I was able to do the following:
I made a directory to mount the hgfs share, let's call it ~/vmshare. Then I did:
On my system, with the same version of open-vm-tools that you are using, that properly mounted the shared disk into ~/vmshare/.
If you do not want the share in your user's home directory, you'll probably have to use sudo and additional parameters to vmhgfs-fuse.