mount: unknown filesystem type 'vmhgfs'

[azhar_manzoor]

Hi,

I am trying to share a folder from my mac OS X El Capitan to Centos 7 Guest. I don't see the shared folder in centos  and when I try to mount I get  the following error:

[root@localhost mnt]# mount -t vmhgfs .host:/ /mnt/hgfs/Downloads

mount: unknown filesystem type 'vmhgfs'

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Azhar.

VMWare Fusion 8.1 Pro

Host Mac OS X 10.11.4

Guest OS Centos 7

vmware-toolbox-cmd -v

9.10.2.48224 (build-2822639)

[sglusnevs]

I have had similar issue with Windows 10 Host, VM Workstation 12 Pro and CenOS 7 Guest.

# mount -t vmhgfs .host:/ /var/www/html/pcdb

mount: unknown filesystem type 'vmhgfs'

The solution (run on the guest):

# /usr/bin/vmhgfs-fuse /mnt

And magically, shared FS is mounted under /mnt.

You can look for `/usr/bin/vmhgfs-fuse --help´ for information how to mount if you have more than one filesystem shared from the VM host.