As the author pointed out, bad things can happen if the mount cannot happen at the proper point in the boot process and you have an entry in fstab that for whatever reason can't mount, blowing the boot process out of the water. You're probably better off using autofs rather than putting an entry in fstab. ( >&2 echo -e 'set up and started $rclocal you should be able to browse $mountpoint now and after reboots ') # if using the `auto` keyword, no rc.local setup is required, and we're done here.Įcho 'mount ' $mountpoint' ' > ' $rclocal ' # USAGE setup-hgfs-automount-ubuntu.sh Įcho '.host:/ $ ` it will also be auto-mounted on next boot ' # It should set up VMWare Shared folders on Ubuntu guests using open-vm-tools The rc.local script runs as the last step of startup, allowing the HGFS filesystem to mount after open-vm-tools services are running, which is required for successful operation. Make sure rc.local is executable and owned by root: sudo chown root:root /etc/rc.localĮnable the rc.local service in systemd: sudo systemctl enable rvice

Create or edit the script /etc/rc.local (as root), and add the line:.

If you have trouble with auto, change to noauto and see below If using the noauto keyword, but you want automount Update: based on extensive testing, the auto keyword seems to work fine. host:/ /mnt/hgfs fuse.vmhgfs-fuse auto,allow_otherĐĐ The shared folders will now be in subdirectories of /mnt/hgfs Setting up auto-mountingĪdd the following line to /etc/fstab.

To mount the filesystem, run: sudo mount -t fuse.vmhgfs-fuse.

Make sure you have a /mnt/hgfs directory made and empty. Sudo apt install open-vm-tools open-vm-tools-desktop Make sure open-vm-tools (and open-vm-tools-desktop if you're using a desktop environment) are installed, and that you've rebooted after their installation. See the Setting up auto-mounting section for setting up auto-mounting instead. You can put configuration stanzas in /etc/fstab to facilitate this, and then mount /mnt/hgfs will work. (Make sure /mnt/hgfs exists and is empty) Install open-vm-tools and run: sudo mount -t fuse.vmhgfs-fuse. This can be frustrating in various ways, but there's an easy fix. Unlike using VMWare Tools to enable Linux guest capabilities, the open-vm-tools package doesn't auto-mount shared VMWare folders. ( NB: adapted from this Ask Ubuntu thread - tested to work on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS through Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy).

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