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I'm using VMware Workstation 10.0.1 and Windows 7 32 bit. I'm trying to install VMware Tools on Arch Linux to Share Folder between Windows host and Arch Linux guest.

Here is the details of my machine uname -a

Linux archlinux 3.18.2-2-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Jan 9 07:23:08 CET 2015 i686 GNU/Linux

I've tried to install VMware tools in various ways. Every time it installs successfully but only the Shared Folder feature didn't work. Neither the vmware supplied hgfs module nor the hgfs module from the open-vm-tools compiles on my machine.

I've tried both Official VMware Tools and Open-VM-Tools from Installing Arch Linux in VMware. But no luck.

I've also tried the patch from GitHub here to automate the process. But nothing changed.

I've also tried this patch got from another question on StackOverflow here

Here is in brief what I've done,

I've tried to install all the dependencies needed for Official VMware Tools and Open-VM-Tools. For this reason I've installed

# pacman -S base-devel net-tools linux-headers

and also installed aurget to install community packages. Then,

For installing Open-VM-Tools

# pacman -S open-vm-tools
$ aurget -S open-vm-tools-dkms // installed as regular user not root
# cat /proc/version > /etc/arch-release
# systemctl enable vmtoolsd.service
# reboot

For installing Official VMware Tools

# cd /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build/include/linux
# ln -sv ../generated/uapi/linux/version.h
# for x in {0..6}; do mkdir -pv /etc/init.d/rc$x.d; done
# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt
# cd /root
# tar zxf /mnt/VMwareTools*.tar.gz
# cd vmware-tools-distrib
# ./vmware-install.pl
# systemctl reboot

After rebooting and logging in,

# /etc/init.d/rc6.d/K99vmware-tools start

Then I've created a folder on my D:\xshare and added this to the machine by menu

VM --> Settings... --> Options --> Shared Folders

Then created a directory on the system

# mkdir /home/archuser/xshare

After that trying to share the folder between host and guest temporarily running this command

# mount -t vmhgfs .host:/xshare /home/archuser/xshare
Error: cannot mount filesystem: No such device

But getting error.

There is an instruction on the Arch installation page to solve this by running this but I'm also getting error here

# modprobe vmhgfs
modprobe: FATAL: Module vmhgfs not found.

Please help me to solve this issue. Thanks in advance.

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kuttumiah
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I had the same issue. I solved applying a patch to the official VM tools. I was on a Mint (debian-based distro) box, so I don't know if you can use the same procedure on Arch, but I think that you can easily adapt it.

I followed the steps suggested here, and in particular those indicated in Jorge's comment, that is:

$ git clone https://github.com/rasa/vmware-tools-patches.git
$ cd vmware-tools-patches
$ ./patched-open-vm-tools.sh

Good Luck!

PieCot
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I use VMware on a Windows 8 64Bit. The guest is Debian Wheezy.

# modprobe vmhgfs
FATAL: Module vmhgfs not found.

So the same here.

I suppose you set the shared folder in the configuration of the virtual machine:

Options --> Shared folders --> Add folders

I have set mine to German, so the names are only guessed.

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  • Yes, I've set the shared folder as described before asking this question. And also got an answer [here](http://stackoverflow.com/a/3140537). But didn't get the answer to do something. – kuttumiah Jan 27 '15 at 16:26
  • Sorry, then I have no idea how to solve your problem. I can only suggest a workaround: If this is practical, you could make the folder publiy in Windows and mount it using SAMBA in your Arch guest. – Ramon Hofer Jan 27 '15 at 16:32
  • It's ok. At least you've tried :) – kuttumiah Jan 27 '15 at 16:33
  • I wanted to create a new line... Maybe the workaround with samba works for you? – Ramon Hofer Jan 27 '15 at 16:34
  • I don't worked with SAMBA before, may be I'll try later if there is no hope. But I think there could be a way to solve this. I'm trying to find this. – kuttumiah Jan 27 '15 at 16:39
  • Installed SAMBA. This is good to go for file sharing. But the VMware Tools should work. – kuttumiah Jan 31 '15 at 00:06