I am new to Ubuntu, but have used Red Hat and its derived Scientific Linux for ~20 years. I am a very experienced software developer, and have written Linux kernel drivers for custom hardware.
I have installed Ubuntu 16.04 into a VMware Fusion virtual machine. But the two versions of VMware tools are fighting -- there is a package open-vm-tools and the version that VMware Fusion provides. Neither works to share folders with my Mac. This basically makes it useless for me.
On the new system, open-vm-tools was installed. In the VMware Fusion settings I removed and re-added the folders I need to share. But /mnt is still empty (no hgfs directory). Some of the VMware tools seem to be running, in that I can re-size the window, and can cut-and-paste between guest and host, but no shared folders. So I Google the problem...
I did "sudo apt-get remove open-vm-tools open-vm-tools-desktop" And then installed the VMware tools from the CD-ROM that VMware Fusion provides. It tried to compile the kernel modules, but the compilation failed in the vmhgfs module with dozens of errors. In addition, the ability to cut-and-paste between guest and host has been lost, so I cannot show you the errors.
How can I get this to work? -- I need to share folders on the host Mac to the guest Ubuntu. (I have many VMs running Red-Hat-derived Scientific Linux, and they all share folders just fine.)
Cannot share folders with VMware Fusion
