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

[thug]

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!

[dirkx]

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

[rcardona2k]

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?

[dirkx]

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

[rcardona2k]

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?

[thug]

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.

[aniva]

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

1. mount /dev/cdrom /mnt

2. cd /tmp

3. tar zxf /mnt/VMwareTools-*.tar.gz

4. umount /mnt

5. cd vmware-tools-distrib*

6. ./vmware-install.pl

(then continue to press to accept the presented defaults)

[thug]

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!

[danjj]

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.