extended attributes in mounted filesystem

[leosenko]

The host is OSX with fusion, guest is Debian Linux. I use shared folders which are stored in APFS filesystem which should support extended attributes. When mounted by default, the extended attributes are however inaccessible in linux.

What is the way to enable extended attributes on the shared folder in guest?

[wila]

Hi,

I don't think that works.

From what I remember this has been reported before here at the forum, but that won't help much.
On github, this item comes a bit in the neighborhood.

https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/issues/334

I suggest for you to open a ticket down there for this issue and hopefully VMware will address it in an update some day.

--
Wil

[ColoradoMarmot]

I think that's right - the shared folders filesystem is pretty basic.

A workaround would be to mount a USB drive directly in the VM.

[Technogeezer]

And it’s also well known that VMware shared folders don’t perform exceptionally well.

[leosenko]

Unfortunately, that is not possible since the virtual machine resides on the same USB disk as the data. The only way would be to create a separate partition on that USB for data but I do not think that would help anyway.

[Technogeezer]

Any chance of trying NFS or SMB file sharing between macOS host and guest?