https://bbs.archlinux.org – For a noob I'd say you got pretty far The first part of your feedback seems to fit better in a bug-report then a forum post; as the open-vm-tools* seems to be a bit outdated and is missing all of archlinux' latest changes (such as persistent-net-rules).As for the 'no such device' message; what is the output of the vmware-hgfsclient command? (HowTos)