VMware shared folders

[peterwjsinclair]

I am running FreeBSD 12.1 RELEASE on VMware Fusion 11.5.1 on macOS Catalina 10.15.2. After installing open-vm-tools, I added fuse_load="YES" to /boot/loader.conf and the following line to /etc/fstab (psinclai is my MacBook host share and I set my uid to be the same on the FreeBSD VM as on the Mac). This works consistently now.

.host:/psinclai /mnt/korell fusefs rw,mountprog=/usr/local/bin/vmhgfs-fuse,allow_other,uid=501 0 0

I also had to add the xf86-video-vmware package to get the right screen resolution once I installed xorg and gnome3.

 

[kim.bjoern]

...and I can confirm that in my /etc/fstab:

.host:/        /mnt/HostShare    fusefs  rw,mountprog=/usr/local/bin/vmhgfs-fuse,allow_other,failok 0 0

works with FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE-p3 (xigmanas-full) and VMware Fusion 12.1

with a minor warning though:

df: File system /mnt/HostShare does not have a block size, assuming 512.
/dev/fuse                      233G     28G    204G    12%    /mnt/HostShare

Thanks - Kim Bjoern