noob question: precise64 (vmware provider) hangs on "Enabling and Configuring Shared Folders"

[Tyler Cheung]

Just installed the vmware fusion provider for vagrant, and am trying it out.

Apparently the default precise64 box provided will work prior to a "sudo aptitude update/upgrade", but then afterwards, vagrant seems to be stuck on 

"[default] Enabling and configuring shared folders..."

If I open up another terminal and go to that directory, I can vagrant ssh into it fine, albeit the /vagrant directory isn't (yet) a directory?

did the standard ubuntu upgrade process melt something important?  

[Nathan Fisher]

Hi,

Likely the VMware tools if the kernel was updated. Add GUI mode to the box config, shutdown, start and watch for failures. It's likely you need to rebuild for the new kernel.

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[Peter Binderup]

I had the very same issue yesterday and finally found a solution.

If you do a dist-upgrade then you have to reinstall Vmware tools again to get the shared folders back.

If you have installed open-vm-tools as one of the attempts to get the shared folders back remove them again: sudo apt-get remove open-vm-tools

Then follow the directions here: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1022525

There is a step by step instruction for reinstalling the tools via command line (using the regular Vmware Fusion client).

When completed - shut down the Vmware fusion session and go back to terminal.app and fire up Vagrant: vagrant up

At least for me that was the solution

/Peter

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