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lucasem

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Registered: 2015-05-31

Posts: 3

mount command hangs with vmhgfs

I'm trying to configure shared folders for my arch vm in vmware fusion from my macbook.

This same issue occurs whether I use the official vmware tools, or open-vm-tools (in conjunction with open-vm-tools-dkms).

The command

mount -v -t vmhgfs .host:/ /mnt/hgfs

hangs indefinitely, nothing can happen. Everything stops.

On forced reboot, I'm met with either the recovery of orphaned inodes or journal recover on my root file system.

$ modinfo vmhgfs
filename:       /lib/modules/4.0.4-2-ARCH/kernel/fs/vmhgfs/vmhgfs.ko
supported:      external
alias:          vmware_vmhgfs
license:        GPL v2
version:        1.4.1.1
description:    VMware Host/Guest File System
author:         VMware, Inc.
srcversion:     8D68F25A88E71BC9CD07641
depends:        
vermagic:       4.0.4-2-ARCH SMP preempt mod_unload modversions 

Any ideas? I've been at this for a very long time! I'd really like to be able to easily manipulate files between my host and my guest without having to scp/ssh/the like...

progandy

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Registered: 2012-05-17

Posts: 5,318

Re: mount command hangs with vmhgfs

If you use vmware-tools, I suggest you try (some of) the patches from this project:
https://github.com/rasa/vmware-tools-patches

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lucasem

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Registered: 2015-05-31

Posts: 3

Re: mount command hangs with vmhgfs

I used the patches, as the standard “pure” official version doesn’t compile while running make.

lucasem

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Registered: 2015-05-31

Posts: 3

Re: mount command hangs with vmhgfs

bump

dopalek

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Registered: 2014-06-06

Posts: 20

Re: mount command hangs with vmhgfs

I have a similar problem. Official tools does not compile and when patched, the whole virtual machine hangs while loading vmhgfs module. Very annoying since I can't use shared directory feature...
There are lots of bug rapports on the Internet but I haven't found any working solution so far.
Guest and host kernel: 4.0.5-1-ARCH

2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

Posts: 4,648

Re: mount command hangs with vmhgfs

bump

Please don't do that.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … te#Bumping

nemster

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Registered: 2010-09-09

Posts: 5

Re: mount command hangs with vmhgfs

same here, host os x 10.10, newest kernel. i tried various patches and patch sets and nothing helps.
usually the whole guest system crashs when trying to mount a directory