Thread: FreeBSD and hgfs

Hi,

Has anyone tried to mount hgfs filesystem in FreeBSD? My attempts failed
yesterday.

# uname -rs
FreeBSD 7.2-RC2

# pkg_info | grep open-vm-tools
open-vm-tools-154848_2 Open VMware tools for FreeBSD VMware guests

# kldstat | grep hgfs
 5    1 0xc1f31000 b000     vmhgfs.ko

# vmware-hgfsclient
temp

# mount -t vmhgfs .host:/temp /mnt/hgfs

# mount | grep hgfs
host:hgfs on /mnt/hgfs (vmhgfs)

# ls /mnt/hgfs 
ls: /mnt/hgfs: Protocol error
Exit 1

# cd /mnt/hgfs 
/mnt/hgfs: Protocol error.

Of course, "Shared Folders" feature is in "Always enables" state for
that virtual machine.

So, what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks in advance.

Hi,

Has anyone tried to mount hgfs filesystem in FreeBSD? My attempts failed
yesterday.

# uname -rs
FreeBSD 7.2-RC2

# pkg_info | grep open-vm-tools
open-vm-tools-154848_2 Open VMware tools for FreeBSD VMware guests

# kldstat | grep hgfs
 5    1 0xc1f31000 b000     vmhgfs.ko

# vmware-hgfsclient
temp

# mount -t vmhgfs .host:/temp /mnt/hgfs

# mount | grep hgfs
host:hgfs on /mnt/hgfs (vmhgfs)

# ls /mnt/hgfs 
ls: /mnt/hgfs: Protocol error
Exit 1

# cd /mnt/hgfs 
/mnt/hgfs: Protocol error.

Of course, "Shared Folders" feature is in "Always enables" state for
that virtual machine.

So, what I'm doing wrong?

Hi Alexander,

On Monday 04 May 2009 16:35:07 Alexander Gromnitsky wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Has anyone tried to mount hgfs filesystem in FreeBSD? My attempts failed
> yesterday.
>
> # uname -rs
> FreeBSD 7.2-RC2
>
> # pkg_info | grep open-vm-tools
> open-vm-tools-154848_2 Open VMware tools for FreeBSD VMware guests
>
> # kldstat | grep hgfs
>  5    1 0xc1f31000 b000     vmhgfs.ko
>
> # vmware-hgfsclient
> temp
>
> # mount -t vmhgfs .host:/temp /mnt/hgfs
>
> # mount | grep hgfs
> host:hgfs on /mnt/hgfs (vmhgfs)
>
> # ls /mnt/hgfs
> ls: /mnt/hgfs: Protocol error
> Exit 1
>
> # cd /mnt/hgfs
> /mnt/hgfs: Protocol error.
>
> Of course, "Shared Folders" feature is in "Always enables" state for
> that virtual machine.
>
> So, what I'm doing wrong?
>
> Thanks in advance.

HGFS is currently not supported on FreeBSD and is work in progress, sorry.

-- 
Dmitry