Comment 30 for bug 1500581

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a name (kaweka) wrote :

@fwroller
open-vm-tools promises less maintenance efforts on kernel updates.
VmWare makes the recommendations - within VmWare Tools installation script and several other sources - to replace bundled VmWare Tools with open-vm-tools provided by package management of used disro. This reco I can understand very well.
Shared folders do not work in following setup: Ubuntu 15.10 64Bits Desktop + open_vm_tools offered by Wily's package management system, status: two days ago.

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