vmvare 虚拟机和windows 共享文件夹

Step One:  Enable a host file in Windows by VMware settings.

  1. 在VMware客户机的选项栏中选择 "Virtual Machine" -> "Virtual Machine Settings..."

  2. 在弹出的窗口中，选择"options" -> "Shared Folders", 在右边选择“Always Enabled", 并增加主机的目录为共享目录，需指定路径与共享目录名。

Step Two: Install or update vmware tools.

These steps are performed on the host, within Workstation menus:

1. Power on the virtual machine.

2. After the guest operating system has started, prepare your virtual machine to install VMware Tools.

Choose VM > Install VMware Tools.

The remaining steps take place inside the virtual machine.

3. As root (su -), mount the VMware Tools virtual CD-ROM image, change to a working directory (for example, /tmp), uncompress the installer, then unmount the CD-ROM image.

Note: Some Linux distributions automatically mount CD-ROMs. If your distribution uses automounting, do not use the mount and umount commands below. You still must untar the VMware Tools installer to /tmp.

Some Linux distributions use different device names or organize the /dev directory differently. If your CD-ROM drive is not /dev/cdrom or if the mount point for a CD-ROM is not /mnt/cdrom, you must modify the following commands to reflect the conventions used by your distribution.

mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

cd /tmp

Note: If you have a previous installation, delete the previous vmware-distrib directory before installing. The default location of this directory is
/tmp/vmware-tools-distrib.

4. Untar the VMware Tools tar file:

tar zxf /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-5.0.0-<xxxx>.tar.gz

umount /dev/cdrom

Where <xxxx> is the build/revision number of the VMware Workstation release.

Note: If you attempt to install a tar installation over an rpm installation — or the reverse — the installer detects the previous installation and must convert the installer database format before continuing.

5. Run the .tar VMware Tools installer:

cd vmware-tools-distrib

./vmware-install.pl

Respond to the configuration questions on the screen. Press Enter to accept the default value.

 

 

Step three: create a shortcut in Desktop of ubuntu

ln -s /mnt/hgfs/shared-directory ~/Desktop/Name-of-the-folder 

 

 

 

Reference webs:
1. http://theholmesoffice.com/how-to-share-folders-between-windows-and-ubuntu-using-vmware-player/

2. https://pubs.vmware.com/workstation-9/index.jsp#com.vmware.ws.using.doc/GUID-08BB9465-D40A-4E16-9E15-8C016CC8166F.html