No /mnt/hgfs in Ubuntu guest under VMWare Fusion

For some reason, the auto-installed VMWare tools didn't do the job, but Ubuntu has a tool called vmware-hgfsmounter, if I installed it then I could do this:

sudo apt-get install open-vm-tools
sudo mkdir /mnt/hgfs
sudo mount -t vmhgfs .host:/ /mnt/hgfs

After running these commands, /mnt/hgfs should now contain your shares.

For Ubuntu 16.04 I had to use vmhgfs-fuse, see https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/issues/199#issuecomment-335525133:

This impacts the Shared Folders client as we have switched from a kernel mode component to a FUSE file system component to provide the Shared Folders file system.

This results in a new mount command to be used for creating the shared file system. For Linux kernel versions we use the FUSE file system which will now mean you should be using the following command:

sudo /usr/bin/vmhgfs-fuse .host:/ /mnt/hgfs -o subtype=vmhgfs-fuse,allow_other

sudo mkdir /mnt/hgfs

Use the above command first, followed by the following:

sudo /usr/bin/vmhgfs-fuse .host:/ /mnt/hgfs -o subtype=vmhgfs-fuse,allow_other

I am using macOS and VMware Fusion with Ubuntu 18.x.