shared folders not mountable (vmhgfs)

[Thomas]

I am testing Fusion 8 (Mac host) with an Ubuntu 16.04 and it looks like there is a bug with the file system support host folders not being mountable:

#: mount -t vmhgfs .host:/123 123
Error: cannot mount filesystem: No such device

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: open-vm-tools 2:10.0.7-3227872-2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-24.43-generic 4.4.10
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Wed Jun 22 12:13:44 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-05-07 (776 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1)
SourcePackage: open-vm-tools
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-04-26 (57 days ago)
modified.conffile..etc.vmware-tools.tools.conf:

mtime.conffile..etc.vmware-tools.tools.conf: 2016-06-22T11:10:56.321986

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Stefan H. (stefan-h)]

Now that the old vmhgfs kernel module is deprecated there really should be something akin to what arch has: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VMware/Installing_Arch_as_a_guest#fstab . They provide an adapter mount type "fuse.vmhgfs-fuse" which can substitute for vmhgfs in the fstab. Potentially the default mount.vmhgfs could even do that job making lots of old stuff just work again (admittedly probably not a good idea until the fuse stuff actually works reliably and even then it might still be a bad idea...).