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I would like to add a shared folder in vmware-workstation, but the vmrun command line is just returning a generic error message.

$ vmrun -T ws enableSharedFolders default.vmx
Error: There was an error mounting the Shared Folders file system inside the guest operating system

I'm looking first for tips to debug further from here.

How I got here: I'm running VMWare Workstation 12 Pro on Windows 10 Pro and I'm trying to setup a docker host (which in turn uses the file share for a lot of development sugar). So the VM image is boot2docker. I'm using a beta driver for workstation - and it is internally failing on the call to vmrun enableSharedFolders during setup.

Inside the running boot2docker image, I have found /var/log/vmware-wmsvc.log to get a few lines each time I run enableSharedFolders - that output looks like:

[Jul 05 18:53:21.412] [ message] [vix] ToolsDaemonTcloReceiveVixCommand: additionalError = 17
[Jul 05 18:53:21.413] [ message] [vix] VixTools_ProcessVixCommand: command 62
[Jul 05 18:53:21.413] [ message] [vix] ToolsDaemonTcloReceiveVixCommand: additionalError = 17
[Jul 05 18:53:21.480] [ warning] [vix] ToolsDaemonTcloMountHGFS: vmhgfs-fuse -> 32512
[Jul 05 18:53:21.497] [ warning] [vix] ToolsDaemonTcloMountHGFS: vmhgfs mounting -> 256
[Jul 05 18:53:21.497] [ message] [vix] ToolsDaemonTcloMountHGFS: returning 20050 2
[Jul 05 18:55:41.537] [ message] [vix] VixTools_ProcessVixCommand: command 62
[Jul 05 18:55:41.537] [ message] [vix] ToolsDaemonTcloReceiveVixCommand: additionalError = 17
[Jul 05 18:55:41.537] [ message] [vix] VixTools_ProcessVixCommand: command 62
[Jul 05 18:55:41.537] [ message] [vix] ToolsDaemonTcloReceiveVixCommand: additionalError = 17

But I also don't know where to go with that. Other searching (vmware support mostly) suggests mounting over the network instead of using vmware-tools. I'd like to avoid going down that path to avoid custom users and config on my host.

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I was able to get the latest version of docker-machine using vmware workstation working, thanks to an update from the author. Version 1.0.10 worked for me.

The main diagnosis I was using, vmware enableSharedFolders continues to fail, so that's mysterious, however the vmhgfs-fuse based folder mounts within the boot2docker vm are working.

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