Fusion 4.0.2 and Fedora 15 Question.

[FoxGrey]

Hi,

I am running Fedora 15 as a guest on my Mac. Tools are installed.

How is Folder Sharing supposed to work?  My Fusion preferences show that my home folder on  my mac

is a shared folder.

However the File Manager in Fedora does not appear to see the rascal. How do I make it visible?

I can drag and drop to the Mac Desktop form the Fedora Window and vice-versa.

Also the Fedora File Manager shows a windows network but clicking on the icon

gets a 'no shares retrieved message' ( and there are many smb shares available on

my lan).

Thanks,

Jerry

[balsup]

I'm having a similar problem seeing shared folders with Fedora 16.  Nothing shows up under /mnt/hgfs

Note that this seems to work fine with fedora 10.  The shared folder appears under /mnt/hgfs as expected, so I do know how to configure this from VmWare Fusion 4.1.1 (536016).  Might there have been a kernel interface change at some point which making the hgfs driver not work properly with the newer kernels?  I do see that the driver is loaded.

[fedora16]$ lsmod | fgrep hgfs

vmhgfs                 51051  2

vmci                   66931  2 vmhgfs,vsock

The non-working Fedora 16 is running a 3.1.5-2.fc16.i686.PAE kernel, whereas the working Fedora 10 is running a 2.6.27.21 kernel.

Both have Shared Folders turned on, and the same shared folder listed in the VM configuration.

[vdanen]

This is, sadly, a kernel issue.  I've got Fedora 15 in a vm (Fusion 4.1) and since the move to 2.6.41, I'm able to compile the kernel modules, but they cause an oops:

Dec 20 22:58:09 virt kernel: [139313.781987] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000068

Dec 20 22:58:09 virt kernel: [139313.782334] IP: [<ffffffff8113b627>] d_alloc+0xf/0x51

Dec 20 22:58:09 virt kernel: [139313.782408] PGD 101068067 PUD 13640b067 PMD 0

Dec 20 22:58:09 virt kernel: [139313.782474] Oops: 0000 [#2] SMP Dec 20 22:58:09 virt kernel: [139313.782573] CPU 0 Dec 20 22:58:09 virt kernel: [139313.782596] Modules linked in: vsock tun sunrpc tpm_infineon nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 ip6t_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 xt_state nf_conntrack ip6table_filter ip6_tables fuse vmhgfs vmci rfcomm bnep ext2 snd_ens1371 gameport snd_rawmidi snd_ac97_codec ac97_bus btusb snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm bluetooth ppdev snd_timer snd soundcore e1000 parport_pc parport rfkill snd_page_alloc microcode vmw_balloon joydev i2c_piix4 i2c_core shpchp ipv6 xts gf128mul dm_crypt mptspi mptscsih mptbase scsi_transport_spi [last unloaded: speedstep_lib]

Dec 20 22:58:09 virt kernel: [139313.783304]

Dec 20 22:58:09 virt kernel: [139313.783407] Pid: 27004, comm: mount.vmhgfs Tainted: G      D     2.6.41.4-1.fc15.x86_64 #1 VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform/440BX Desktop Reference Platform

Dec 20 22:58:09 virt kernel: [139313.784592] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8113b627>]  [<ffffffff8113b627>] d_alloc+0xf/0x51

Dec 20 22:58:09 virt kernel: [139313.784743] RSP: 0018:ffff8801349d5ce8  EFLAGS: 00010246

Dec 20 22:58:09 virt kernel: [139313.784810] RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000002066

Dec 20 22:58:09 virt kernel: [139313.784921] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff8801349d5d08 RDI: 0000000000000000

Dec 20 22:58:09 virt kernel: [139313.785022] RBP: ffff8801349d5cf8 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 00000000000002f0

Dec 20 22:58:09 virt kernel: [139313.785122] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: ffff880134792400 R12: ffff880102957000

Dec 20 22:58:09 virt kernel: [139313.785232] R13: ffff880098a95000 R14: ffff880134bd1000 R15: 0000000000000000

Dec 20 22:58:09 virt kernel: [139313.785338] FS:  00007f14a89cb720(0000) GS:ffff88013b200000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000

Dec 20 22:58:09 virt kernel: [139313.785465] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033

Dec 20 22:58:09 virt kernel: [139313.785551] CR2: 0000000000000068 CR3: 000000010096f000 CR4: 00000000000006f0

Dec 20 22:58:09 virt kernel: [139313.785749] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000

Dec 20 22:58:09 virt kernel: [139313.785875] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400

Dec 20 22:58:09 virt kernel: [139313.785981] Process mount.vmhgfs (pid: 27004, threadinfo ffff8801349d4000, task ffff880098bdc590)

Dec 20 22:58:09 virt kernel: [139313.786114] Stack:

Dec 20 22:58:09 virt kernel: [139313.786162]  ffff880102a82d00 ffff880102957000 ffff8801349d5d18 ffffffff8113b6ca

Dec 20 22:58:09 virt kernel: [139313.786310]  0000000100002066 ffffffffa0176934 ffff8801349d5d68 ffffffffa0174fcd

Dec 20 22:58:09 virt kernel: [139313.786465]  ffff880102957068 ffffffffa0177190 00000000000000d0 0000000000000000Dec 20 22:58:09 virt kernel: [139313.786585] Call Trace:

Dec 20 22:58:09 virt kernel: [139313.786630]  [<ffffffff8113b6ca>] d_alloc_name+0x61/0x63

Dec 20 22:58:09 virt kernel: [139313.786703]  [<ffffffffa0174fcd>] HgfsReadSuper+0x227/0x28f [vmhgfs]

Dec 20 22:58:09 virt kernel: [139313.786782]  [<ffffffffa0174da6>] ? HgfsMount+0x1a/0x1a [vmhgfs]

Dec 20 22:58:09 virt kernel: [139313.786858]  [<ffffffff8112bd23>] mount_nodev+0x4b/0x7e

Dec 20 22:58:09 virt kernel: [139313.786927]  [<ffffffffa0174da4>] HgfsMount+0x18/0x1a [vmhgfs]

Dec 20 22:58:09 virt kernel: [139313.786999]  [<ffffffff8112c776>] mount_fs+0x69/0x153

Dec 20 22:58:09 virt kernel: [139313.787065]  [<ffffffff810f827e>] ? __alloc_percpu+0x10/0x12

Dec 20 22:58:09 virt kernel: [139313.787136]  [<ffffffff81140418>] vfs_kern_mount+0x63/0x9d

Dec 20 22:58:09 virt kernel: [139313.787205]  [<ffffffff81140dd6>] do_kern_mount+0x4d/0xdf

Dec 20 22:58:09 virt kernel: [139313.787273]  [<ffffffff8114245e>] do_mount+0x63c/0x69f

Dec 20 22:58:09 virt kernel: [139313.787338]  [<ffffffff81142771>] sys_mount+0x88/0xc2

Dec 20 22:58:09 virt kernel: [139313.787406]  [<ffffffff814a31c2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

Dec 20 22:58:09 virt kernel: [139313.787478] Code: 18 5b 5d c3 55 48 89 e5 66 66 66 66 90 e8 d3 fc ff ff 48 85 c0 74 03 83 08 10 5d c3 55 48 89 e5 41 54 53 66 66 66 66 90 48 89 fb

Dec 20 22:58:09 virt kernel: [139313.787837] RIP  [<ffffffff8113b627>] d_alloc+0xf/0x51

Dec 20 22:58:09 virt kernel: [139313.787901]  RSP <ffff8801349d5ce8>

Dec 20 22:58:09 virt kernel: [139313.787949] CR2: 0000000000000068

Dec 20 22:58:09 virt kernel: [139313.789287] ---[ end trace 403c6d9abcb818af ]---

This is highly annoying.  What's worse is I'd love to upgrade the vm to Fedora 16, but last I checked, the tools don't even compile with a 3.x kernel.

It would be nice if someone from vmware could acknowledge this and do something to correct it.  Thankfully it doesn't panic the virtual machine, but it also prevents hgfs from working at all.