Setting of shared files between Windows XP and RedHat 9.0 on a physical machine in VMware

After VMware is installed, VMware Tools is not installed by default. After Linux is started, the status bar of VMware is displayed.
Wmware tools is not installed on this guest. choose "install wmware tools" from VM menu. (You can use the [VM]-> [install wmware tools] menu to install a virtual tool ).

Steps for installing VMware Tools:
1. In the graphic interface, press CTRL + ALT + F1 to enter the Linux text interface.
If you use Linux text to install linux from the beginning, you do not need this step.
2. Enter Linux as root.
3. press CTRL + ALT to enter the main operating system, and click the sub-menu of Virtual Machine Tool installation under the virtual menu. menu: VM-> install VMware Tools .... (Virtual Machine-> install VMware Tools ...)
4. Click "Install" in the pop-up dialog box to confirm the installation of VMware Tools.
5. Click the Linux interface to go to Linux.
6. Use the following command to mount the optical drive device. Pay attention to the case.
(If/mnt does not have a corresponding directory, you can create it using the mkdir command)
Mount-T iso9660/dev/CDROM/mnt/CDROM
Enter the/mnt/CDROM folder;
7. CD/mnt/CDROM
Use the following command to display the content in the folder.
8. ls
You will find two files:
VMwareTools-6.0.3-80004.i386.rpm and VMwareTools-6.0.3-80004.tar.gz
This is the Linux software package of VMware Tools. (6.0.3-80004 indicates the version number, which may be different)

Run the following command to directly run the RPM package.
9. rps-ivh VMwareTools-6.0.3-80004.i386.rpm
You will see the installation progress:
Preparing... ######################################## # [100%]
1: vmwaretools ####################################### ### [100%]

(Run the following command to enter the/usr/bin directory.
10. CD/usr/bin
Use the following command to find the vmware-config-tools.pl file.
11. ls *. pl
12 ../vmware-config-tools.pl
Run vmware-config-tools.pl files.
13. Set resolution
This step is relatively simple, and you will understand it at a Glance. We will not bother to talk about it here .)
 
Unzip the decompressed vmwarw.ls-6.0.3-80004.tar.gz (cannot be in/mnt/CDROM, because/mnt/CDROM is read-only), after decompression there will be a file called vmware-install.pl, in the Super Terminal input command:
./Some prompts will appear when the vmware-install.pl is executed directly, press enter (Note: use instructions in/vmware-tools/doc/install)

 

14. After installation, you can set a shared folder on the host. Click the menu:
[VM]-> [setting]-> [Options]-> [share folders], click Add on the right, and select the host directory
15. Go to "/mnt/HGFS" in Linux to see the shared directory.

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