How to mount a folder in windows to a linux Virtual Machine refers to a linux virtual machine that can access a specified folder in windows, including http: // reading and writing. VMware Tools must be installed in the following Mount methods. Install VMware Tools. Right-click the linux virtual machine that you want to start, and a right-click menu will pop up, with an install VMware Tools. Click this option to open a directory in linux, which contains a compressed file of the VMware Tools installation package. Extract the file and you will find a vmware-install.pl file in it. Under this directory, enter sudo./vmware-install.pl and press the Enter key in all subsequent options to install VMware Tools. After installing VMware Tools, you can perform the following operations. 1. For linux virtual machines, click Settings and select "shared folders" under the "options" tab ". 2. Click "add" to create a ing between the windows file and the linux path. In this way, linux should be able to access the windows folder. In linux, the file Mount path is/mnt/hgfs/mm.