I'm using VMWare Fusion 10.1.1 on Mac OS X 10.12.6 with Ubuntu 16.04 (Linux ubuntu 4.4.0-121-generic) and observe that the speed for writing to shared folders mounted with vmhgfs-fuse is extremely different from writing to a folder of the guest OS.
I installed open-vm-tools-desktop with the following versions:
$ vmhgfs-fuse -V
vmhgfs-fuse: version 1.6.6.0
FUSE library version: 2.9.4
fusermount version: 2.9.4
using FUSE kernel interface version 7.19
$ dpkg -s open-vm-tools-desktop
Package: open-vm-tools-desktop
Status: install ok installed
Priority: extra
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 454
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Architecture: amd64
Source: open-vm-tools
Version: 2:10.2.0-3ubuntu0.16.04.1~ppa6
Replaces: open-vm-tools (<< 2:10.0.0~)
Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.18~), libatkmm-1.6-1v5 (>= 2.24.0), libc6 (>= 2.14), libcairomm-1.0-1v5 (>= 1.12.0), libdrm2 (>= 2.4.3), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0), libglibmm-2.4-1v5 (>= 2.46.0), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.9.10), libgtkmm-3.0-1v5 (>= 3.18.0), libice6 (>= 1:1.0.0), libsigc++-2.0-0v5 (>= 2.6.1), libsm6, libstdc++6 (>= 5.2), libudev1 (>= 183), libx11-6 (>= 2:1.4.99.1), libxext6, libxi6, libxinerama1, libxrandr2 (>= 2:1.2.0), libxtst6, open-vm-tools (= 2:10.2.0-3ubuntu0.16.04.1~ppa6), fuse
Recommends: xauth, xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse, xserver-xorg-video-vmware
Suggests: xdg-utils
Breaks: open-vm-tools (<< 2:10.0.0~)
Conffiles:
/etc/vmware-tools/xautostart.conf 48addca654cf45120790657090edff00
/etc/xdg/autostart/vmware-user.desktop a00f6f451c319d17d319763b915415ce
Description: Open VMware Tools for virtual machines hosted on VMware (GUI)
The Open Virtual Machine Tools (open-vm-tools) project is an open source
implementation of VMware Tools. It is a suite of virtualization utilities and
drivers to improve the functionality, user experience and administration of
VMware virtual machines.
.
This package contains the user-space programs and libraries that are essential
for improved user experience of VMware virtual machines.
Homepage: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools
Original-Maintainer: Bernd Zeimetz <bzed@debian.org>
In a non-shared folder of the guest OS, I get the following speed:
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/file bs=8
^C8325393+0 records in
8325392+0 records out
66603136 bytes (67 MB, 64 MiB) copied, 10.736 s, 6.2 MB/s
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/file bs=512
^C4095313+0 records in
4095313+0 records out
2096800256 bytes (2.1 GB, 2.0 GiB) copied, 11.7533 s, 178 MB/s
However, in a shared folder, I get the following speed:
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/hgfs/shared-folder/temp/file bs=8
^C103488+0 records in
103488+0 records out
827904 bytes (828 kB, 808 KiB) copied, 11.9862 s, 69.1 kB/s
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/hgfs/shared-folder/temp/file bs=512
^C106471+0 records in
106471+0 records out
54513152 bytes (55 MB, 52 MiB) copied, 13.3213 s, 4.1 MB/s
That's a huge difference which, unfortunately, breaks some of my use cases for shared folders. Do I have something wrong in my setup?
I'm using VMWare Fusion 10.1.1 on Mac OS X 10.12.6 with Ubuntu 16.04 (Linux ubuntu 4.4.0-121-generic) and observe that the speed for writing to shared folders mounted with vmhgfs-fuse is extremely different from writing to a folder of the guest OS.
I installed open-vm-tools-desktop with the following versions:
In a non-shared folder of the guest OS, I get the following speed:
However, in a shared folder, I get the following speed:
That's a huge difference which, unfortunately, breaks some of my use cases for shared folders. Do I have something wrong in my setup?