Re: Cannot get shared folders, open-vm-tools or vmware tools to work after upgrading to Fusion 8

OK I FINALLY got open-vm-tools working on Ubuntu.  I'm not sure everything that was necessary, but here is what I did:

1. Completely uninstalled vmware tools using the uninstaller
2. Installed open-vm-tools, open-vm-tools-desktop and open-vm-tools-dkms. I'm not sure I needed all that, but at least the man pages were there which helped.
3. At one point I used vmware-user-suid-wrapper, which set the desktop to the proper resolution, but it wasn't persistent until I upgraded Ubuntu.
4. Upgraded Ubuntu Studio ot 15.04 Vivid Vervet.
5. vmware-hgfsclient will show you what is actually shared by the VM, even if it isn't mounted.
6. To persistently mount the shares, I added the following to the /etc/fstab: " .host:/         /mnt/hgfs vmhgfs  defaults  0 0"
7. Rebooted and everything works now.

Since VMware is now recommending that users use open-vm-tools instead of the deprecated vmware-tools, it would have been nice to have succinct instructions on how to make the transition, instead of me having to spend hours in trial and error until I got it working.