Shared folders with CentOS-7 guest in VMware-10 using open-vm-tools
Bob Hepple
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
4 thoughts on - Shared folders with CentOS-7 guest in VMware-10 using open-vm-tools
Eero Volotinen writes:
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 writes:
under open-vm-tools, the only module I know about is vmtoolsd and it is running:
[root@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@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 writes:
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@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
Bob Hepple writes:
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