The project maintainers are welcome to declare vmhgfs unsupported, but until they do I think the current situation is a regression in functionality. vmhgfs-fuse just isn't a functional replacement yet.
(Background: I am using VMWare Fusion 8.0 on a Mac. I had a working system which has broke on upgrading to Ubuntu 16.04 due to vmhgfs going away, and unfortunately after trying a number of methods I still haven't found a solution to replace it. NFS and CIFS to the host have not worked out, and Samba client is currently broken. I am rather desparately now trying a patched vmhgfs-fuse, but having vmhgfs kernel module available would be more welcome.) ** Changed in: open-vm-tools (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1572211 Title: vmhgfs module not built To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1572211/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs