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arch4smith

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Registered: 2023-11-29

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open-vm-tools: mount host shared folder on boot failed

1. enviroment:
host machine: Windows 11 home 23H2
vmware version: workstation pro 17.0.0
guest machine: Archlinux 6.6.1
open-vm-tools version: 6:12.3.5-1

2. issue
Manually mounting host shared folder with command 'vmhgfs-fuse' works, however, attempts to persistently mount the folder by adding "vmhgfs-fuse /mnt/hgfs fuse defaults,allow_other 0 0" to /etc/fstab always fail.
The error msg during boot: Failed to mount /mnt/hgfs. Dependency failed for local file systems.
dmesg output: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock, missing codepage or helper program, or other error

3. solution
The same fstab configuraion works in another guest machine of debian 11, of which the open-vm-tools version is 12.2.0. Therefore I downgraded the open-vm-tools to ver 6:12.0.0-1 on the Archlinux guest machine and it works.
Hope someone could figure out the cause for this issue.
Thanks.