[CentOS] Shared folders with Centos-7 guest in VMware-10 using open-vm-tools

[Bob Hepple]

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:

[root at 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 at imp yum.repos.d]# /usr/bin/vmware-hgfsclient
shared

Is there something else I need to do to get this working?


Thanks


Bob