VMware Tools installation process and file sharing settings

 

From: http://www.enet.com.cn/article/2007/1224/A20071224966525.shtml

 

 

To better solve the problem of sharing virtual machines and hosts, VMWare has a vmware-tools tool to achieve file sharing. Here we mainly talk about using VMWare virtual Linux in Windows to share with windows.

1. Install the client system. For Linux, choose centos5.

2. After Linux in the virtual machine is started, note that it must be after the virtual machine is started ). Select the VM option in the menu. A sub-item is install VMware Tools and select it. Start installation.

3. Now, go to the CDROM item in the removable devices sub-item in the VM menu, and click Edit to open the installation folder of VMware. Is there some * in it *. ISO, okay. Select Linux according to the previous steps. ISO as the ISO file.

4. Mount the Linux. ISO file.

Mount/dev/CDROM/mnt/CDROM

CD/mnt/CDROM

5. Decompress vmware-tools * .tar.gz In the CDROM folder.

CP vmware-tools * .tar.gz/tmp

CD/tmp

Tar xzvf vmware-tools * .tar.gz

CD vmware-tools-distrib

In the folder does not see a vmware-install.pl

OK!

/Vmware-install.pl

Press enter until the installation is successful.

6. Is it easy to install VMware-tools successfully?

Cd/mnt

If you see a hgfs folder, it indicates that the installation is successful. Next we will explain how to set up sharing, which is simpler.

Do you remember the above operations in the VM menu? Yes! Next, select the setting sub-item in the VM menu, and then select Options. Do you see Shared Folders in the left half of the Form? If you have not set it before, it should be Disabled.

Select Enabled until next power off or suspend, select Add, and select the folder to be shared with the customer's Linux.

Now all the work has been completed. Under/mnt/hgfs, you will see the added folder. Write a file to the specified share folders in windows and you will be able to see it in the Linux client. You can also see and modify the file written in Linux.

Detach an optical drive

Umount/mnt/cdrom