at least help remove the error?
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vmhgfs module not built
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well this needs to be fixed and its not ubu specific. its DEBIAN
specific, above stretch. you hit this error when upgrading too.
I keep getting systemctl errors on boot because the module just isnt
there. neither for open-vm-tools nor fuse.
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@jamie-shareable VMWare developers have indicated[1] that the kernel
driver should not be used with 4.0 and newer kernels. I am going to
close this bug as won't fix for the kernel compilation issue. The
vmhgfs-fuse issues will be addressed in bug #1579544
[1]
** Changed in: open-vm-tools (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => High
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The project maintainers are welcome to declare vmhgfs unsupported, but
until they do I think the current situation is a regression in
functionality. vmhgfs-fuse just isn't a functional replacement yet.
(Background: I am using VMWare Fusion 8.0 on a Mac. I had a working
system which has broke on
The vmhgfs-fuse client is too buggy to use for some things, such as running Git,
as reported (by me) at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1579544
Even if that's fixed, the vmhgfs-fuse client has different behaviour
with file permissions and creating files on the host,
Thanks for pointing out. I was not aware of this.
The fuse-client is still barely undocumented. After some amount of Googling I
leave a few links here for documentation purposes,
just in case other people stumble about this topic too:
Best documentation I found:
This is expected behavior, the host guest filesystem (HGFS) is handled
in usespace by FUSE rather than in the kernel.
>From [open-vm-tools-announce] open-vm-tools 10.0.0 release [1] and in
the changelog:
New features in open-vm-tools 10.0.0 include:
- Shared Folders: For Linux distributions with
