Shared Folders are not working, Wily
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open-vm-tools (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Ubuntu 15.10 64Bits Desktop.
open-vm-tools package 2:9.10.
Shared Folders function not available at all since Ubuntu virt. mach. been upgraded to 15.10.
Needed packages dkms, desktop, core package install successfully, however the function is not available.
According to Readme.md file (VmWare's open-vm-tools project repo on Github)
the VmWare's open-vm-tools package won't include needed Linux drivers as those were available
in Linux kernel itself. Linux kernels since 3.10 support all drivers except for hgfs.
So the impression arises open-vm-tools development guys won't target in their's work
the implementation of hgfs driver. These leave this job to distributions or Linux mainline kernel.
This launchpad project is the evidence for my assumption.
So Ubuntu and other distributions seem to be in duty of providing working hgfs driver.
I do not see any signals a job is in progress here (this launchpad project) for fixing this bug.
Nor I am able to find bug same as this already open and in processing.
Please correct me if I am wrong.
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
summary: |
- Shared Folders are not working + Shared Folders are not working, Wily |
10.0.5-3227872 seems to be the open-vm-tools version with vmhgfs driver starting to be compatible with kernel 4.2
which is used in Wily. Is this the signal as for Wily there is no chance for Shared Folders to be working until 10.0.5-3227872 package is available?