Download Vmware Tools For Vmware Workstation 15 Pro
Laveta Nachman
If I run vmware-hgfsclient in terminal, I get the list of shared folders, but ls -l /mnt/hgfs is empty. Actually there's no hgfs dir in /mnt. I know I should probably use the vmware-hgfsclient tool, but I realy don't know how.
[UPDATE 2017-05-18] This answer is outdated for Ubuntu newer than 15.10 (Wiley). The executable vmware-hgfsmounter has not been available in Ubuntu since 16.04LTS (xenial). Although, hgfsmounter may still be available on other Linux distributions, since the hgfsmounter function is still currently available in the upstream source code on GitHub. If anyone has updated information, please comment or edit this answer, instead of down-voting, as I believe this answer may still be valid for older Ubuntu releases.
But the vmware-hgfsmounter function is not available using the official vmware-tools from VMware that ships with the current VMware player. Therefore, as the currently accepted answer suggests, running the vmware-config-tools.pl -d fixes the problem.
Type vmware-hfgs and then press the key which will show you that there is also a vmware-hgfsmounter command. If you call that without any options it will print some help that shows you how to call this as part of the `mount' command. Using that info I then ran the following which worked for me:
(applies to Mac VMware Fusion and Ubuntu file sharing)When you are asked in vmware-config-tools.pl about whether you want HGFS, say yes! (The default is 'no' and you may have skipped over it when hitting enter). This should give you /mnt/hgfs after the tools are installed.
A workaround for this problem is to edit 'inode.c' and change the line '888' to remove 'compat_truncate' function call (that is responsible for this problem on kernels 3.8.x). This file is inside 'vmware-tools-distrib', so you need to perform the following steps:
I am posting this here because I struggled with this and ultimately found the solution elegantly saved in another website which is no longer up (wayback machine: ://www.utterlyforked.com/vmware-fusion-5-and-cent-6-4/)
I followed the steps to Manually install VMWare Tools in a Linus VM and it worked OK and I can see/access my Shared folders in windows.
This is the link to the steps:
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Thanks Jeff, I saw your reply a few years ago saying the same thing, so I just wanted to check if anything has changed lately. We have SD and vmware workstation pro on a stand alone server and usually RDP to the server, then load the ref image in VMWare, but, as I said, it's just so dang slow to use.
In this tutorial i will show you how to install vmware tools in centos 7. Installing vmware tools in your centos 7 guest OS will increase performance and compatibilty , there are some benefit installing vmware tools in your centos 7:
2. Extract the archive. You need the darwin.iso file. You can copy darwin.iso to the directory where other ISO images with VMware Tools are stored. If you use VMware Workstation, this directory is the VMware Workstation installation directory on Windows and /usr/lib/vmware/isoimages/ on Linux (Ubuntu). The directory to store ISO images with VMware Tools on ESXi is /vmimages/tools-isoimages/
The Security & Privacy window is opened again, but you see the Privacy tab now. You need to tick the checkbox at the vmware-tools-daemon string, but now this string is inactive. In the left bottom corner of the window, click the lock to make changes.
Step 6: Now we will install VMware tools. For that, navigate to the vmware-tools-distrib folder inside the /tmp directory by running the below command:
One of the easiest ways that you can test any operating system on your computer is to install it on a virtual machine. Up until now, the best virtual machine software is known as VMWare workstation Pro which is quite powerful and can support every operating system on the market. That includes the MacOS Ventura which was announced on 6th June of 2022. The point is once the installation is completed, you have to install the drivers of that operating system too. In the case of drivers for the virtual machine inside VMWare, it is called VMWare tools. So, if you have just installed macOS Ventura on VMWare workstation pro then you must know how to Install VMware Tool on macOS Ventura.
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