vmware-tools-patches: shared folders not working anymore - VMWare Fusion Pro 7.1.2 + ubuntu 14.04 64bit

As descrubed in the subject, the shared folder modules seems not woking properly since the list of shares in /mnt/hgfs is null.

However, the vmware-hgfsclient returns the lists of my share as they exist. Enabling / disabling the shared folders option returns this warning message :

Unable to update run-time folder sharing status: There was an error mounting the Shared Folders file system inside the guest operating system

tried on kernel versions : 3.19.3, 4.0.0 and 4.0.5

any suggestion ?

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the only way to get the shared folders always working on x64 systems is this one. Edit the /etc/modules file this way :

# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file contains the names of kernel modules that should be loaded
# at boot time, one per line. Lines beginning with "#" are ignored.
# Parameters can be specified after the module name.

lp
rtc
vmhgfs

adding the vmhgfs module at startup. Then edit your /etc/rc.local file so the shared folder is automatically mounted at boot every time :

#!/bin/sh -e
#
# rc.local
#
# This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel.
# Make sure that the script will "exit 0" on success or any other
# value on error.
#
# In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution
# bits.
#
# By default this script does nothing.

mount -t vmhgfs .host:/ /mnt/hgfs

exit 0

and you’re done !

artynet on Aug 31, 2015

Still having this problem.But it doesn’t work by Edit the /etc/modules with Ubuntu 15.10

yaochiqkl on Jun 20, 2016