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open-vm-tools package

  1. Bug #1513531
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 1513531

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Ray Satiro (raysatiro) wrote :

I also had shared folders fail to work after I upgraded from Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04 LTS and installed the tools. I'm not sure if it's related to this. The error I got was "Failed to get unit file state for run-vmblockx2dfuse.mount: No such file or directory"

When I went to install VMware Tools from the ISO it suggested I use open-vm-tools. I installed that and open-vm-tools-desktop but hgfs didn't work. I read in this bug a comment by virtualadrian to install libfuse-dev so I did that, and then I reinstalled vmtools:

sudo apt-get purge open-vm-tools open-vm-tools-desktop
sudo apt-get install open-vm-tools open-vm-tools-desktop

I still got the fuse error message after doing that, but I added the line to fstab provided by drolevar in bug 1551558 and rebooted, and now it works.

echo '.host:/ /mnt/hgfs fuse.vmhgfs-fuse allow_other,uid=1000,gid=1000,auto_unmount,users,defaults 0 0' \
 | tee -a /etc/fstab