VMware Communities: Message List - Linux Guest Cannot Mount /mnt/hgfs "no such device"

Re: Linux Guest Cannot Mount /mnt/hgfs "no such device"

danjj — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:13:22 GMT

I just upgraded to 1.1.3 and with my Centos5 guest, I used the X software installer to upgrade the tools. I am still getting HGFS mount failed, though I see the vmhgfs kernel module from modprobe. When I try to manually mount I get "Protocol Error". When I run vmware-hgfsclient, it prints a warning: HGFS is disabled in the host. I have checked that shares are enabled.

Re: Linux Guest Cannot Mount /mnt/hgfs "no such device"

thug — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:29:01 GMT

Everything is working fine w/ 1.1.3. I've been reading/writing to the host share all day from both sides (OS X & CentOS) with no problems. Thanks VMWare for fixing this issue!

Re: Linux Guest Cannot Mount /mnt/hgfs "no such device"

aniva — Sat, 31 May 2008 16:49:23 GMT

HGFS works fine for me, upgraded from 1.1.2 by simply downloading and installing 1.1.3.

Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 32bit

You have to install VMWare tools after updating.

In a nutshell

1. Switch Linux console to the text mode
2. VMWare menu "Virtual Machine" -> "Install VMWare Tools"
3. Go back to concole and as root

mount /dev/cdrom /mnt
cd /tmp
tar zxf /mnt/VMwareTools-*.tar.gz
umount /mnt
cd vmware-tools-distrib*
./vmware-install.pl

(then continue to press to accept the presented defaults)

Re: Linux Guest Cannot Mount /mnt/hgfs "no such device"

thug — Sat, 31 May 2008 16:12:12 GMT

I just did an upgrade/install of 1.1.3, ran the "Install VMWare Tools" from the menu.

At first, it would freeze every time I tried to open an HGFS share... after a few reboots, shares seem to be working fine for me. So, it's working for now, I'll report back after using it for work on Monday.

NOTE: I am running with the recent 10.5.3 update to Leopard. Not sure if that matters or not.

Re: Linux Guest Cannot Mount /mnt/hgfs "no such device"

rcardona2k — Sat, 31 May 2008 16:11:02 GMT

Should be sufficient to run Fusion 1.1.3 with the version 1.1.3 Tools in CentOS. Did shared folders work before for you?

Re: Linux Guest Cannot Mount /mnt/hgfs "no such device"

dirkx — Sat, 31 May 2008 15:23:51 GMT

I actually tried both, just to be sure; and both had this issue. What I've not done is a total reinstall of everything -- does it make sense to try that too ?

Thanks,

Dw

Re: Linux Guest Cannot Mount /mnt/hgfs "no such device"

rcardona2k — Sat, 31 May 2008 15:16:29 GMT

By "clean" do you mean a first time installation of the VMware Fusion 1.1.3 Tools into CentOS or a fresh install of Fusion 1.1.3 on the host, or both?

Re: Linux Guest Cannot Mount /mnt/hgfs "no such device"

dirkx — Sat, 31 May 2008 15:12:25 GMT

Still seeing the very same issue after a (furthermore) clean 1.1.3 upgrade (on CentOS: 2.6.18-53.1.19.el5, x86_64).

Dw

Re: Linux Guest Cannot Mount /mnt/hgfs "no such device"

rcardona2k — Sat, 31 May 2008 03:39:03 GMT

This issue is fixed in Fusion 1.1.3, according to the Release Notes.

Re: Linux Guest Cannot Mount /mnt/hgfs "no such device"

thug — Wed, 28 May 2008 17:19:13 GMT

Seconded on the quick fix. I could really use it.

Hey, if there's an internal fix, is there the possibility of getting it out to a few of us so that we can get back to work (and keep our pie-holes shut ;))? I'd be more than happy to beta test it... I can't be any more broken than my current tools install.

Re: Linux Guest Cannot Mount /mnt/hgfs "no such device"

wolfwolf — Mon, 26 May 2008 10:25:01 GMT

Hi,

Please release a fix for this issue as soon as possible, since it's severely impacting the normal usage of VMware Fusion with RHEL 5 and CentOS 5.

Thanks.

Re: Linux Guest Cannot Mount /mnt/hgfs "no such device"

thug — Thu, 22 May 2008 15:36:59 GMT

No dice. Still tells me it fails to mount HGFS. Reverting to 1.1.1 tools doesn't seem to be an option for me. I'd love to see a patch for this...

Re: Linux Guest Cannot Mount /mnt/hgfs "no such device"

thug — Thu, 22 May 2008 13:45:02 GMT

Hmmm... I tried that earlier and it didn't work for me. I'll have to grab a snapshot of my current install and try again. Glad it worked for you.

Re: Linux Guest Cannot Mount /mnt/hgfs "no such device"

theorydot — Thu, 22 May 2008 08:30:23 GMT

Just to confirm that I downgraded to VMWare Tools 1.1.1 on CentOS 5.1 and was able to get my shared folders back up.

There was no uninstall pl script on the system, but removing the rpm and installing the older one did the trick.

Cheers.

Re: Linux Guest Cannot Mount /mnt/hgfs "no such device"

thug — Thu, 15 May 2008 17:05:13 GMT

Understood. Thanks for the update! Please pass along to the 1.x guys that we'd like to see this soon.

Re: Linux Guest Cannot Mount /mnt/hgfs "no such device"

etung — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:59:22 GMT

It's fixed internally, but the group which now handles 1.x is different from the main group of developers working on 2.0. I'm not sure how they're going to handle getting the fix out, but even if I did, VMware policy against saying anything about timelines would prevent me from saying when.

Re: Linux Guest Cannot Mount /mnt/hgfs "no such device"

thug — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:35:07 GMT

Could someone at VMWare please provide us with the status of this issue? Is it being actively worked? If so, is there an estimated date for a fix? I don't like being a pest about this but it is causing me a fair amount of problems.

Re: Linux Guest Cannot Mount /mnt/hgfs "no such device"

thug — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:21:00 GMT

Good idea, but no dice. Installing the Beta tools caused 1.1.2 to freeze when trying to open an HGFS mount. I reverted to a snapshot to get back to the original (broken) state that at doesn't mount HGFS but at least doesn't freeze.

Please, VMWare, give us a real fix for this.:-(

Re: Linux Guest Cannot Mount /mnt/hgfs "no such device"

etung — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:53:19 GMT

If you're willing to run beta code, 2.0b1 should work. We are working on a solution for people who can't or don't want to run beta code.

Re: Linux Guest Cannot Mount /mnt/hgfs "no such device"

rcardona2k — Fri, 09 May 2008 18:10:50 GMT

So the compromise may be to run with the beta Tools on Fusion 1.1.2 minimizing your exposure only to the Tools and not the rest of the Fusion product and networking.

Re: Linux Guest Cannot Mount /mnt/hgfs "no such device"

aniva — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:49:22 GMT

Yes, update would be great. Don't get me wrong, VMWare is a great application but this small issue is very annoying, I had all my scripts on hgfs and now my environment is broken so I lost one week already. Would be great if vmware can pay little bit more attention to this this problem.

Re: Linux Guest Cannot Mount /mnt/hgfs "no such device"

thug — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:56:43 GMT

I'd try it but I'm running this VM for work, and I'd rather not use beta code.

Re: Linux Guest Cannot Mount /mnt/hgfs "no such device"

thug — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:55:48 GMT

Any update on the status of this issue?

Re: Linux Guest Cannot Mount /mnt/hgfs "no such device"

thug — Thu, 01 May 2008 16:48:44 GMT

Thanks, etung.

Re: Linux Guest Cannot Mount /mnt/hgfs "no such device"

etung — Thu, 01 May 2008 16:41:57 GMT

On a related note, anyone from VMWare out there listening? You guys aware of this issue?

Yep, we're aware of it. As I said above, we're currently trying to figure out the best way to handle it.

Re: Linux Guest Cannot Mount /mnt/hgfs "no such device"

rcardona2k — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:27:53 GMT

I don't have a CentOS installation to test. Just to recap you're saying that HGFS worked under Fusion 1.1.1/Tools 1.1.1 then you upgraded to Fusion 1.1.2/Tool 1.1.2 and hgfs broke. So now you've reverted back to the Fusion 1.1.2/Tools 1.1.1 but you're still unable mount any shared folders and your shared folders are still defined in Virtual Machines > Settings > Shared Folders.

Is the HGFS module loading with the 1.1.1 Tools?

Alternatively to access host files you can always turn on Windows Sharing (System Preferences > Sharing) and use smbmount to mount your home directory, e.g.

mkdir /mnt/hostfiles
smbmount //host_ip/homedir /mnt/hostfiles -o user=osxuser,password=osxpasswd

I'm assuming CentOS/RHEL has an smb client to access CIFS shares. IMO, SMB/CIFS sharing works better than Shared Folders.

Re: Linux Guest Cannot Mount /mnt/hgfs "no such device"

thug — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:56:20 GMT

Thanks for the response...

Yes, everything worked fine under 1.1.1/1.1.1 tools. I reverted back to 1.1.1 tools (version 7.6.3 build 87978) under 1.1.2 and it still did not work. Everything is properly defined in my /etc/fstab and in the VMWare control panel. Running the command vmware-hgfsclient shows the shared dir defined in the control panel. It is simply a failure to connect to that share reported earlier in this thread.

I haven't heard if this has worked for anyone else on this thread that was experiencing the issue. Anyone get this working?

Thanks for the Windows sharing tip. I may use it temporarilly, but I don't like the idea of running any Windows services for security reasons.

BTW... sorry to pester you. I thought you were on the VMWare team (I just looked at your profile and realized you're not). Thanks again for the help so far.

On a related note, anyone from VMWare out there listening? You guys aware of this issue?

Re: Linux Guest Cannot Mount /mnt/hgfs "no such device"

thug — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:12:12 GMT

Can we get a status update on this problem please? rcardona2k? Anyone?

Re: Linux Guest Cannot Mount /mnt/hgfs "no such device"

thug — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:18:15 GMT

rcardona2k:

1) Any progress on a fix, or an idea of how long it will take?

2) In the meantime, is there another method for the guest to reach the host's files? SSHFS maybe?

Thanks.

Re: Linux Guest Cannot Mount /mnt/hgfs "no such device"

thug — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:36:40 GMT

Anyone able to successfully install and run the 1.1.1 version tools under 1.1.2 per rcardona2k's instructions?

Re: Linux Guest Cannot Mount /mnt/hgfs "no such device"

thug — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:05:41 GMT

No luck.

Removed the old tools, mounted the 1.1.1 tools image, installed, configured, rebooted... same problem. I'm getting "Failed" messages on mount at boot, and "No such device" when trying to mount manually once booted.

Re: Linux Guest Cannot Mount /mnt/hgfs "no such device"

rcardona2k — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:51:35 GMT

The uninstall script is present in /usr/bin if you've installed any version of VMware Tools. On the ISO CD image, it's probably embedded in the tar.gz or .rpm file. For me /usr/bin is my PATH, so I would only have to type vmware-uninstall-tools.pl. I would try that first.

Otherwise you can untar the Tools package and hunt for the uninstall Tools script in there.

Re: Linux Guest Cannot Mount /mnt/hgfs "no such device"

thug — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:38:25 GMT

Thanks for the quick reply.

OK, I've got the .iso extracted, moved and mounted under the guest OS; however, I have no vmware-uninstall-tools.pl. The only script in the directory is vmware-config-tools.pl

Re: Linux Guest Cannot Mount /mnt/hgfs "no such device"

rcardona2k — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:15:17 GMT

Sorry, I mispoke, you don't have to install Fusion 1.1.1 to get the old Tools. Just re-download Fusion 1.1.1 from the Fusion downloads page and download Pacifist. Pacifist will let you extract the ISO from the installer package. With Pacifist navigate to:
Contents of VMware-Fusion-1.1.1.dmg > Install Vmware Fusion.app > Contents > Resources > Contents Of Install Vmware Fusion.pkg > Library > Application Support > VMware Fusion > isoimages.

Extract linux.iso and you're set.

Re: Linux Guest Cannot Mount /mnt/hgfs "no such device"

thug — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:51:20 GMT

Rather than having to install the old version, move files, etc, etc... would it be possible for someone there to provide us with the 1.1.1 tools ISO image? I don't have time to do a bunch of installing/uninstalling right now. That image is running a DB I need for development, and I have a lot to get done today.

Thanks!

Re: Linux Guest Cannot Mount /mnt/hgfs "no such device"

ddc74 — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:16:09 GMT

Is there any idea of how long this will take to fix?

Also, you mentioned the pre-built hgfs is the part that is broken. Is there a way to manually create hgfs without the X-win application?

Re: Linux Guest Cannot Mount /mnt/hgfs "no such device"

rcardona2k — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:28:10 GMT

The VMware Tools are stored in ISO files under /Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/isoimages. If you can install Fusion 1.1.1 or have another installation of Fuson on another Mac, copy the linux.iso from the directory above, rename it to LinuxTools111.iso and attach it as a regular CD image to your Linux machine under 1.1.2.

In your Linux VM with the 1.1.2 Tools, as root, run /usr/bin/vmware-uninstall-tools.pl Then connect the v1.1.1 Linux Tools ISO, and install the Tools package under /mnt/cdrom.

Re: Linux Guest Cannot Mount /mnt/hgfs "no such device"

isv — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:38:21 GMT

Any idea when this issue will be fixed?

I'm on RHEL 5.1 client and after upgrading to 1.1.2 hgfs is inoperative. Is there an easy way to downgrade back to 1.1.1?

Re: Linux Guest Cannot Mount /mnt/hgfs "no such device"

etung — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 04:29:07 GMT

Thanks for reporting this. I'm told the pre-built HGFS modules are simply broken. We're trying to figure out the best way to fix this.

Re: Linux Guest Cannot Mount /mnt/hgfs "no such device"

neptune2000 — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:24:15 GMT

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop, kernel release 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5

Re: Linux Guest Cannot Mount /mnt/hgfs "no such device"

ddc74 — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:10:04 GMT

CentOS 5.1, using kernel 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5

Re: Linux Guest Cannot Mount /mnt/hgfs "no such device"

neptune2000 — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:53:24 GMT

BTW, I can clearly see the message:

Mounting HGFS FAILED

during RHEL5 boot.

Re: Linux Guest Cannot Mount /mnt/hgfs "no such device"

thug — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:52:57 GMT

CentOS 4.6, kernel 2.6.9-67.0.7ELsmp

Re: Linux Guest Cannot Mount /mnt/hgfs "no such device"

neptune2000 — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:51:22 GMT

Same for me: broken under Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Works OK in Ubuntu 7.10.

Re: Linux Guest Cannot Mount /mnt/hgfs "no such device"

etung — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:43:59 GMT

What distro and kernel are you using?

Re: Linux Guest Cannot Mount /mnt/hgfs "no such device"

thug — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:24:27 GMT

Interesting. I'm using CentOS 4.6. I wonder if its a RH/CentOS issue or if that's just a red herring.

Re: Linux Guest Cannot Mount /mnt/hgfs "no such device"

ddc74 — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:13:50 GMT

I'm experiencing the same exact problem with a linux VM that worked previous to 1.1.2 as well.

I went ahead and created a whole new VM from scratch and it has the same problem. I'm running CentOS 5.1 if that helps.

-D

Linux Guest Cannot Mount /mnt/hgfs "no such device"

thug — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:00:33 GMT

Upgraded to 1.1.2 today. Updated VMWare Tools. Ran vmware-config-tools.pl. Rebooted. Now, Fusion won't mount /mnt/hgfs (was working fine before upgrade).

I have verified /etc/fstab is correct (the upgrade overwrote it, BTW). Running the command vmware-hgfsclient shows my defined share point on the Mac. Using "mount /mnt/hgfs" reports "no such device" even though the directory does exist.

Any help is greatly appreciated. I use this VM work and I'm stuck!