laent.blogg.se - Vmware workstation shared folder

If you don't see either the icon or the mount, try uninstalling and reinstalling VMware Tools (this happened for me when an old version was originally installed), then disable and re-enable Shared Folders and reboot.

If there's no icon, check in Finder->Preferences.->General if "Connected servers" is checked:.In the filesystem, it's a vmhgfs mount at /Volumes/VMware Shared Folders: You should now have a "VMware Shared Folders" icon on desktop in which you will see the folder you've created. Your VM can not be running if you have to change the setting in VMWARE. In this example I have a folder called 'c:/IRAD' to be shared - it can be any folder (mostly). Press Next and OK everywhere until all dialogues close To view a shared folder in a Windows guest OS, go to File Explorer > Network. verify that in Workstation 15 Player (pro) that the shared folders is turned on, and will be connected.

and add a shared folder (pick any host folder that you have access to and any name)

Enable VMware Shared Folders for the VM.

After finishing, the installation will restart the system.

If a security dialog pops up saying that a system extension was blocked, do as it says: go into security settings, allow the VMware system extension to run and when prompted for restart, choose to restart later.

Click on the Add new shared folders button from the right. Unlike other answers posted so far, this one explains how to connect the host and guest via VMware Shared Folders. I have used VMware Workstation since v3 in both Windows and Linux for both hosts and guests.