Solution to failure to see shared folders in Ubuntu under Vmware

For Linux beginners, Ubuntu is installed on Vmware. access between the host and virtual machines is essential and there are many ways. Among them, the shared folder method provided by VMware tool is simple and convenient.

However, sometimes the shared folder is not visible on Ubuntu. I checked it online and said that the shared folder is not visible due to the Ubuntu update. I did not go into the details for the specific reason, but the solution is actually very convenient, basically: uninstall and reinstall. In addition, you can run a script in these two steps.

Of course, the uninstallation mentioned here is not about detaching Ubuntu, but about detaching vmware-tools.

What, you don't know how to uninstall it? Don't worry, don't worry, let me slowly come, huh, huh ....

Start Ubuntu and click VM> reinstall VMware Tools in the VMware menu. In this way, there is a VMware Tools Folder under Ubuntu/media, there is a VMwareTools-xxx-xxx.tar.gz to extract it to other directories (or copy the past and then unzip, because the current directory is equivalent to the optical drive, read-only ), unzip the package to get a vmware-tools-distrib/folder, run the vmware-install.pl script file inside, it will uninstall VMware Tools and then install, there are a lot of prompts to confirm, the default is enough. After that, go to/mnt/HGFS/and check out ...... our shared folder is back.

Figure 1: Installing

Figure 2: Installation Complete