{"id":918,"date":"2017-02-27T12:32:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T11:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/?p=918"},"modified":"2017-02-27T12:32:11","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T11:32:11","slug":"install-and-mount-hgfs-share-with-open-vm-tools-in-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/?p=918","title":{"rendered":"Install and mount HGFS share with open-vm-tools in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tFirst install the right open-vm-tools package:\n<\/p>\n<pre>\n# sudo apt-get install open-vm-tools-dkms<\/pre>\n<p>\n\tthen you can mount the shared folder with following command:\n<\/p>\n<pre>\n# sudo mount -t fuse.vmhgfs-fuse .host:\/ &lt;mount point&gt; -o allow_other<\/pre>\n<p>\n\tplease make sure that the mount point exists. to make this permanent and mount at boot, edit your \/etc\/fstab file and add\n<\/p>\n<pre>\n.host:\/ \/mnt\/hgfs fuse.vmhgfs-fuse allow_other 0 0<\/pre>\n<p>\n\t<strong>Important: FUSE can only be used with kernel &gt;4 and open-vm-tools &gt;10, otherwise the simplest solution is to install VMware Tools<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First install the right open-vm-tools package: # sudo apt-get install open-vm-tools-dkms then you can mount the shared folder with following command: # sudo mount -t fuse.vmhgfs-fuse .host:\/ &lt;mount point&gt; -o allow_other please make sure that the mount point exists. to make this permanent and mount at boot, edit your \/etc\/fstab file and add .host:\/ \/mnt\/hgfs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linuxunix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndk.sytes.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}