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it seems like I have to reinstall vmware tools every time I update my OS

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Win 7 host OS, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS guest OS

 

The guest OS was telling me that it was due for an update and restart, so I restarted it. Now I can't see any of my mounted hgfs folders. So I reinstalled vmware tools and restarted. Got a message that the mount failed when the OS booted up. But it appears that the shared folder is present, so that's helpful.

 

Still, it seems like every time I update the guest OS and have to restart it I have to reinstall VMWare tools because they simply stop working (shared folders is especially important and disruptive if it stops). Am I the only one seeing this? It's really annoying.

 

Edit: and after reinstalling the copy/paste isn't working... so I guess I reinstall again. This whole thing is incredibly flaky and frustrating. I've spent way too much time troubleshooting the install of these tools.

 

Edit2: one more reinstall and now the copy/paste is working. Still getting an error message on boot about the mount failing. The mounted folder is available though.


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