I've created a Ubuntu 14.04 VM and found exactly your observations, though in my case I was using Ubuntu as host. Browning 503 Big Game Knife. It appeared that installing vmtools made no difference to the VM, unlike in Windows, where a new graphics driver was installed. It seems that the link you cite refers to much earlier versions of Ubuntu. I then found, which confirms that vmtools is indeed broken, and I have installed the proposed solution. Everything installed exactly according to the instructions, so VMware's Shared Folders feature now works with an Ubuntu host, and there is every reason to hope that it will work with a Windows host.

By the way, addressing your performance concerns, I copied a 600MB folder from the USB drive to the VM Desktop: with the Ubuntu VM using Samba and a Windows VM using Shared Folders it took ~45 seconds, and with the Ubuntu VM now using Shared Folders it was marginally faster at 40 Seconds, but this margin could easily be caused by other activities or caching. It indicates that your 100GB transfer will take around 2 hours. Thank you for the question: it raised some interesting issues.

GitHub is home to over 20 million developers working. I try to use your patch install but the problem. Omron 3g2c7-lk201-ev1 Manual. Nexus Expansion Packs Trap Free there. With this done I get the vmhgfs module compiled and. VMware Tools for Linux Installing VMware Tools from the Command Line with the Tar Installer The first steps are performed on the host. (vmhgfs module).