Mounting host file system in VMWare guest on boot

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I am running NixOS as VMWare guest on Windows host. I can mount shared directory using vmhgfs-fuse on command line but when I tried to add it to configuration.nix like so

system.fsPackages = [ pkgs.open-vm-tools ];

fileSystems."/mount/here" = {
    fsType = "fuse.vmhgfs-fuse";
    device = ".host:/windows_share";
    options = [
      "allow_other"
      "auto_unmount"
      "uid=1000"
      "gid=100"
      "defaults"
    ];
  };

it failed with vmhgfs-fuse: command not found error in the log.

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Sorry to necro this thread, but this is what come up in a Google search of how to mount a host windows file system in an VMWare guest, so I figure it’s best to reask here as this is where search engines are directing people to.

Is there any documentation on this anywhere?

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So this works for me…

put the following in the /etc/nixos/hardware-configuration.nix

system.fsPackages = [ pkgs.open-vm-tools ];

  fileSystems."/mount/here" = {
    device = ".host:/SHARENAME";
    fsType = "fuse./run/current-system/sw/bin/vmhgfs-fuse";
    options = ["umask=22" "uid=1000" "gid=100" "allow_other" "defaults" "auto_unmount"];
  };
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