Ways to share folders with Windows under VMware Ubantu

Students who have just come into contact with Linux often prefer to install a virtual machine under a Windows system and then operate on a virtual machine, but the file transfer between Windows and the Linux system on the virtual machine is often inconvenient, Wrap up a little trick today. Share a folder on the Ubantu system on Windows and Vmvare.

1. Install Vmware-tools on VMware (you can skip this step if the software has already installed this tool)

(1) Click on the VMware toolbar ' VMS '-"Install VMware Tools ...", then the desktop will appear with the disc-shaped VMware tools, and will automatically jump out of the directory, containing two files, "Manifest.txt" and " Vmwaretools-8.4.5-324285.tar.gz ".

(2) switch to the root user in the terminal

(3) switch to this directory/media/vmware Tools

(4) Copy VMware Tools compressed package to temp file) CP vmwaretools-8.4.5-324285.tar.gz/tmp

(5) Switch to temp directory/tmp

(6) Unzip the target file tar zxvf vmwaretools-8.4.5-324285.tar.gz

(7) CD Vmware-tools-distrib

(8) Install the Vmware-tools command./vmware-install.pl

2. Setting up Shared Folders

(1) Select Vm-setting in VMware

(2) Add a shared folder in Windows

(3) The directory of Shared folders in Ubantu's terminal is/mnt/hgfs

This is the way VMware under Ubantu and Windows share folders, in addition to VMware under Red Hat and Windows shared files do not need to establish a shared folder, after the installation of Vmware-tools, you can copy directly, Settings to directly copy the Windows files onto the Red Hat system.

Ways to share folders with Windows under VMware Ubantu