Hi!
Just wondering if anyone has this working ...
Centos-7 guest in VMware-10 host (on Windows-7 :-( )
Out of the box, shared folders and drag&drop do not work although X screen resolution sensing is fine (ie xrandr reports the resolution of the host screen as well as the peculiar screen options built-in) and I can Alt-Enter to full screen quite happily.
I tried Fedora-22 too but did not even get that far.
It's the shared folder that I would really like to get working. vmware- hgfsclient reports my share but there is no /mnt/hgfs directory. Also 'lsmod|grep hgfs' reports nothing.
'systemctl restart vmtoolsd' (bah!) does not help.
Thanks
Bob
Bob Hepple <bob.hepple@...> writes:
It's the shared folder that I would really like to get working. vmware- hgfsclient reports my share but there is no /mnt/hgfs directory. Also 'lsmod|grep hgfs' reports nothing.
also:
mount -t vmhgfs .host:/ /mnt/tmp mount: unknown filesystem type 'vmhgfs'
... which kinda sorta tells me I need to modprobe something.
I reckon I'm sooooo close, just need a nudge to get it over the line!!
Any ideas out there?
Cheers
Bob
try modprobe vmhgfs
-- Eero
2015-08-07 6:53 GMT+03:00 Bob Hepple bob.hepple@gmail.com:
Bob Hepple <bob.hepple@...> writes:
It's the shared folder that I would really like to get working. vmware- hgfsclient reports my share but there is no /mnt/hgfs directory. Also 'lsmod|grep hgfs' reports nothing.
also:
mount -t vmhgfs .host:/ /mnt/tmp mount: unknown filesystem type 'vmhgfs'
... which kinda sorta tells me I need to modprobe something.
I reckon I'm sooooo close, just need a nudge to get it over the line!!
Any ideas out there?
Cheers
Bob
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Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen@...> writes:
try modprobe vmhgfs
I get:
modprobe: FATAL: Module vmhgfs not found:
Is it supposed to be shipped with open-vm-tools?
I haven't been able to re-compile the vmware tools myself.
Thanks
Bob
Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen@...> writes:
try modprobe vmhgfs
under open-vm-tools, the only module I know about is vmtoolsd and it is running:
[root@imp yum.repos.d]# systemctl status vmtoolsd vmtoolsd.service - Service for virtual machines hosted on VMware Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/vmtoolsd.service; enabled) Active: active (running) since Thu 2015-08-06 18:49:02 AEST; 3 days ago Docs: http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/about.php Main PID: 806 (vmtoolsd) CGroup: /system.slice/vmtoolsd.service └─806 /usr/bin/vmtoolsd
open-vm-tools appears to know about hgfs as it has an eponymous file:
/usr/lib64/open-vm-tools/plugins/common/libhgfsServer.so
and:
[root@imp yum.repos.d]# /usr/bin/vmware-hgfsclient shared
Is there something else I need to do to get this working?
Thanks
Bob
Bob Hepple <bob.hepple@...> writes:
Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen <at> ...> writes:
try modprobe vmhgfs
under open-vm-tools, the only module I know about is vmtoolsd and it is
running:
Arghhh! Of course vmtoolsd is not a module, it's a service! Here are the modules that could be something to do with vmware:
[root@imp ~]# lsmod |grep vm vmw_balloon 13415 0 vmw_vmci 67106 0 vmwgfx 179730 2 drm_kms_helper 98226 1 vmwgfx ttm 93488 1 vmwgfx drm 311588 5 ttm,drm_kms_helper,vmwgfx
Cheers
Bob
Bob Hepple <bob.hepple@...> writes:
Hi!
Just wondering if anyone has this working ...
Centos-7 guest in VMware-10 host (on Windows-7 )
Just to report my resolution of this one - no-one has been able to report success with vmware-tools with VMware-10, Windows-7 host, Centos-7 guest so far.
So I tried Centos-6.7 and all is well after installing vmware-tools from the tarball provided by vmware - screen resolution, auto-sensing and shared folder.
Centos-6.7 is fine for me and I'll be living there instead of the nightmare desktop provided by the employer.
Cheers
Bob
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Bob Hepple -
Eero Volotinen