VMware Virtual Machine Ubuntu v15.04 and Windows v8.1 shared folders

VMware Virtual Machine Ubuntu v15.04 and Windows v8.1 shared folders

Please ensure that latest Workstation are installed.

First identify the VMware Tools installed, as shown in the following figure. A simple way to determine whether the VMWA tools have been successfully installed: Check if the virtual machine and host can copy/paste content with each other, if so, the installation is successful, if not, you need to reinstall.

Then proceed to the following steps.

Make sure open-vm-tools are not installed.
$ sudo apt-get remove Open-vm-tools

1. Make sure the updates are:
$ sudo apt-get update

2. Make sure Git is installed
$ sudo apt-get install git

3. Run the command to get the tools from repository.
$ sudo git clone https://github.com/rasa/vmware-tools-patches.git

4. CD to Vmware-tools-folder
$ CD Vmware-tools-patches

5. Run the patch
$ sudo./download-tools.sh
It takes a long time.

6. Run the following patch
$ sudo./untar-and-patch.sh

7. Run the complie.sh file
$ sudo./compile.sh

8 into the MNT directory to view the Hgfs directory already.
$ cd/mnt/
$ ls
CDROM Hgfs