Re: problems with shared folders between mac and linux sold

Hi Janina, On 18 Jan 2016, at 22:06, 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries wrote: > Well, if you mean the integration of all the tools in an out of the box > installed product, it's certainly there on Linux for many users. The > a11y use case has also been

Re: problems with shared folders between mac and linux sold

hey, here are the steps that i took. do not trust official documentation and tutorials. I launched a virtual machine, linux, i then went into the virtual machines menu in Fusion 8 and hit the install VM tools, it then mounted the image on linux. i started terminal and using ctrl shift T i pasted

Re: problems with shared folders between mac and linux sold

Well, if you mean the integration of all the tools in an out of the box installed product, it's certainly there on Linux for many users. The a11y use case has also been demonstrated by small distro knockoffs like Vinux. It's not there, however, at the level that you can head over to Best Buy and

Re: problems with shared folders between mac and linux sold

Hmmm, hgfs? As in Mercurial? I will take back what I just wrote, as I think I've just learned something. And, yes, please share your steps. I would appreciate them. Janina mohammad suliman writes: > hi, > this was also my experience when I installed VMware on windows with Ubuntu. > the

Re: problems with shared folders between mac and linux sold

Well, I think the reason so few people use Linux desktops has more to do with the Linux industry deciding to focus on the back office. There were some very specific corporate decisions about this in the mid 2000's. I was in the middle of them as Chair of the Open A11y work. All of sudden,

Re: problems with shared folders between mac and linux sold

Hi Janina My point was really more that the integration was non-existent. Of course we know how it’s done because we have the knowledge to suss it all out, but Mac and Windows users don’t even have the worry of learning. I think VMWare made an important decision to allow distributors to

Re: problems with shared folders between mac and linux sold

hey, i just mounted the VM installer, did not worry about extraction of the archives or the tons of other crap you find. all i had to do was run these commands. tar -xvf /media/$USER/"VMware Tools"/VMwareTools*.gz -C /tmp and the last command. sudo /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-install.pl -d

Re: problems with shared folders between mac and linux sold

The reason is that Open-VM-Tools is now using a FUSE driver that one installs as part of the “open-vm-tools-desktop” package, whereas the proprietary tools are using a dedicated vmhgfs kernel module that is now deprecated. I no longer use sharing because the dependency requirements are too

Re: problems with shared folders between mac and linux sold

hi, this was also my experience when I installed VMware on windows with Ubuntu. the documentation is terrible, so spent several hours trying to configure shared folders. On 1/14/2016 5:55 AM, Michael Marshall wrote: hey all, just wanting to let the list know that i have at last got my folders

problems with shared folders between mac and linux sold

hey all, just wanting to let the list know that i have at last got my folders between mac and ubuntu working on VM Fusion. even the instructions from VM were wrong on this. i had to remove open VM tools because it would not mount the HGFS directory and install the VM tools that came with Fusion.