VMware Linux shared folder virtual machine no shared file workaround

After recovering the virtual machine Ubuntu, first, click on the virtual machine-install VMware Tools, then we will find the CD icon of VMware Tools on the Ubuntu system desktop.

By double clicking on the file icon, you will find two files, Manifest.txt and vmwaretools-8.4.5-324285.tar.gz, which are OK, stating that our VMware Tools download was successful.

We will copy the vmwaretools-8.4.5-324285.tar.gz to/tmp

Cd/tmp

Unzip the tar zxvf vmwaretools-8.4.5-324285.tar.gz.

Next, enter the CD Vmware-tools-distrib (into the corresponding folder after decompression), then click Enter, followed by the sudo./vmware-install.pl(Install the software), OK after the point of return, You will be prompted to enter your password (the password you set before you installed Ubuntu)

Then there will be a constant hint, but you can press ENTER when you see the prompt, and finally the Enjoy will appear ,--the VMware team at this time to the section of Luo, explain our vmware Tools OK.

Second step, shared folder
First, after clicking on the virtual machine---settings, the virtual machine settings will appear, select "Options", click on the shared folder----always enable---add, and then proceed in sequence to OK.

At this point you create the share folder below the local F drive, which is the folder shared with the virtual machine.
Here is OK, you enter the virtual machine, point application-attachment-terminal, enter the Linux interface, and then enter the Cd/mnt/hgfs and then enter the fate of this LS, will find the directory below the directory share, indicating that the sharing was successful.

If the/mnt/hgfs under no directory situation:

VMware8 Virtual Machine installation Ubuntu 11.10 Use the Share folders shared directory to power off the virtual machine (cannot pause), set the Share folders directory, and restart the virtual machine.  At this point the/mnt/hgfs directory is still empty.  Should sudo apt-get install open-vm-dkms, go all the way by pressing the ENTER key.  Then sudo mount-t vmhgfs. host://mnt/hgfs, so/mnt/hgfs has a shared directory with Windows. To automatically mount the shared directory each time the boot is mounted, add a line at the end of/etc/init.d/open-vm-tools: sudo mount-t vmhgfs. host://mnt/hgfs (host:/ at 2 spaces)

VMware Linux shared folder virtual machine no shared file workaround