{"id":1017,"date":"2014-01-25T03:16:19","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T03:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2014-01-25T03:16:19","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T03:16:19","slug":"kernel-3-13-in-linux-vmware-guest-shared-folders-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1017","title":{"rendered":"Kernel 3.13 in Linux VMware Guest &#8211; Shared Folders Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Setting up a test system for the usb\/uvcvideo tests, I have found another kernel 3.13 issue &#8211; this time with Linux as a VMware <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">guest<\/span>..<\/p>\n<p>The shared folders &#8211; which work OK with 3.12, do not work with 3.13.<\/p>\n<p>Normally shared folders are found under \/mnt\/hgfs, but with 3.13 the hgfs directory is corrupted in some odd way, so that it is shown as &#8216;not a directory&#8217; if a listing is attempted:<\/p>\n<pre>$ <strong>ls \/mnt<\/strong>\r\n<strong>hgfs<\/strong>\r\n$ <strong>ls \/mnt\/hgfs\/<\/strong>\r\n<strong>ls: cannot open directory \/mnt\/hgfs\/: Not a directory<\/strong><\/pre>\n<p>With kernel 3.12.8, the shared directories are shown correctly:<\/p>\n<pre>$ <strong>ls \/mnt\/hgfs\/<\/strong>\r\n<strong>data8 rgadsdon<\/strong><\/pre>\n<p>Once again, further research is needed, but &#8211; so far &#8211; there\u00a0 does not appear to be a patch for this particular problem..<\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 January 25, 2014<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Setting up a test system for the usb\/uvcvideo tests, I have found another kernel 3.13 issue &#8211; this time with Linux as a VMware guest.. The shared folders &#8211; which work OK with 3.12, do not work with 3.13. Normally shared folders are found under \/mnt\/hgfs, but with 3.13 the hgfs directory is corrupted in some odd <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1017\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,14,15,25],"tags":[771,722,772,770,402],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compilation","category-crash-and-burn","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-vmware","tag-mnthgfs-not-a-directory","tag-kernel-3-13","tag-linux-guest","tag-shared-folders-not-mounted","tag-vmware-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018,"href":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions\/1018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}