VMware Tools for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial

Question

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

Answer 1

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:

vmhgfs-fuse ~/vmshare

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.

Answer 2

Thanks so much - this worked, so I did :

i) I shared the folder on Win7

ii) Followed this part of the link https://askubuntu.com/questions/29284/how-do-i-mount-shared-folders-in-ubuntu-using-vmware-tools

sudo vmware-config-tools.pl -d --clobber-kernel-modules=vmhgfs

The -d selects all the defaults for you (remove it if you don't want the defaults).

iii) Then followed this from this link

[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:

vmhgfs-fuse ~/vmshare 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.]

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Word of advise - this worked at this time - but ???