[Bio-Linux] VMWare player shared folders

[Tim Booth]

Hi Parham,

I do apologise - I didn't read your e-mail properly and sent
instructions for VirtualBox rather than VMWare.  You can ignore the
vboxsf stuff.

Given you already installed the VMWare drivers, please try this:

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic

sudo vmware-config-tools.pl

sudo mkdir -p /mnt/shared

sudo mount -t vmhgfs .host:/ /mnt/shared

ls /mnt/*

Any joy?  Or else what exact error messages do you get?

Cheers,

TIM

On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 14:43 +0000, Parham Pourbozorgi wrote:
> Hi, 
> Thanks for looking into it. I tried the steps, it seems there is no
> vboxsf available. This is the output:
> sudo usermod -aG vboxsf $USER                     
> usermod: group 'vboxsf' does not exist
> 
> 
> I must add that I installed VMware's tools with default values, in
> case they had to be changed. 
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Parham
> 
> Kind regards,
> Parham Pourbozorogi
> 
> 
> PhD student,
> Dept. of medical biochemistry and biophysics,
> Umeå Unviersity,
> Umeå - Sweden
> 
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>         Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 10:21:46 +0000
>         From: Tim Booth <tbooth at ceh.ac.uk>
>         To: Bio-Linux help and discussion
>         <bio-linux at nebclists.nerc.ac.uk>
>         Cc: Parham Pourbozorgi <papo0009 at gapps.umu.se>
>         Subject: Re: [Bio-Linux] shared folders disappeared after
>         update
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>         Hi Parham,
>         
>         Sorry to hear about this.  Let's check things through one step
>         at a
>         time, though I'm sure you've done most of this already:
>         
>         1) In the VM, check that all updates applied successfully.
>         You can do
>         this in the terminal like so:
>         
>         sudo apt-get update
>         sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
>         
>         You should see 0 to install and 0 errors.
>         
>         2) Type 'groups' and see if the list includes the word
>         'vboxsf'.  If
>         not, run:
>         
>         sudo usermod -aG vboxsf $USER
>         
>         3) Shut down the VM
>         
>         4) In the shared folder settings in the VM, remove the shared
>         folder
>         definition and recreate it from scratch with the options
>         'auto-mount'
>         and 'make permanent' selected.
>         
>         5) Boot up the VM
>         
>         6) In the VM, open up a terminal and give the command:
>         
>         sudo VBoxControl --nologo sharedfolder list
>         
>         What do you see?
>         
>         7) Also, give the command:
>         
>         ls -l /media
>         
>         Again, what do you see?
>         
>         Cheers,
>         
>         TIM
>         
>         On Fri, 2015-02-27 at 22:00 +0000, Parham Pourbozorgi wrote:
>         > Hello all,
>         > I have been using biolinux 8 on VMware player 7.1.0
>         build-2496824.
>         > Yesterday after a biolinux (or may be Ubuntu) update the
>         shared
>         > folders between VMware and my host (Windows 8.1) disappeared
>         and no
>         > matter how many of the online tips I tried and how many
>         times I
>         > re-installed the biolinux I couldn't figure out a solution.
>         I was
>         > wondering if you know the cause and you can give any advise.
>         >
>         >
>         > I must add that biolinux is a fantastic job and I really
>         appreciate
>         > the effort, thanks!
>         >
>         >
>         >
>         > Cheers,
>         > Parham
>         
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Tim Booth <tbooth at ceh.ac.uk>
NERC Environmental Bioinformatics Centre 

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