No vmhgfs file system installed to use use shared folder

Question

After a fresh install i can't get the shared folder to mount in /mnt/hgfs. I created the hgfs directory, purged the "open-vm-tools-dkms" and reinstalled "öpen-vm-tools" as i found somewhere else. But it doesn't seem to work.

I see there is a "vmware-vmblock-fuse" process running but /proc/filesystems does show me that "vmhgfs" is not in the kernel.

Solution

Ok i found the solution just after posting this question. This for lines did it for me, now lets see if it works stable (hasn't always been the case for hgfs in the past)

$ sudo apt-get install git
$ git clone https://github.com/rasa/vmware-tools-patches.git
$ cd vmware-tools-patches
$ sudo ./patched-open-vm-tools.sh

Comments

[Farley]

Not work for me. Instead, the following line fixed this on ubuntu 16.04. vmhgfs-fuse /path/to/created/guest/folder See superuser.com/questions/1072317

[Christof Kälin]

This is a solution for zesty 17.4, thank you!

[Mohsen Abasi]

Not to forgot to 'apt-get update' at the first place