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emosms
January 14th, 2010, 15:24
Anyone running a virtual freeBSD via vmWare?
I have a guest freeBSD and winXP host.
Running the VM through vmWare and have installed vmware tools.
I enabled shared folders and try to mount the shared folders.
Cant find into the documentation explicitly stated, that this feature works for freeBSD guest.
So according to the instructions I followed:
Permissions and Folder Mounting for Shared Folders on Linux Guests
When type:
mount -t vmhgfs .host:/ /home/user1/shares
I get:
mount: .host/ : Operation not supported by device

pol
February 10th, 2011, 15:23
Hi. I'm running FreeBSD 8.2-PRERELEASE i386 on VMware Workstation 6.5.5 (Win7 x64) with working Share Folders feature.

I used the current port emulators/open-vm-tools-nox11. Including the use of shared folders in the virtual machine configuration, added a shared directory on the host, on the guest executed the mount command: mount -t vmhgfs .host: /mnt And you're done.