How to use VM Tools to enable ubuntu in a VMware virtual machine to share folders of the Windows system

This article mainly introduces how to use VM Tools to enable the ubuntu in the VMware virtual machine to share the folder of the Windows system. The article is very detailed and has a certain reference value. Interested friends must read it!

We often have such scenarios where we install a Linux (Windows) virtual machine through VMware software on the host Windows (Linux) operating system, and then need to share data through some media between the two operating systems.

A more troublesome way is to upload the shared data to a website as temporary storage, and then access the network to download the data in the virtual machine.

By sharing folders, we can share data more quickly.

This article describes the detailed steps.

Use VMware to start the virtual machine, menu Player- > Manage- > install VMware Tools. Because I have already installed it, the menu turns gray.

Virtual Machine Settings- > Share Folders, change Disabled to Always enabled:

The following figure means that the directory wmware-share under disk C of my host Windows operating system is used as a shared folder so that the virtual machine Ubuntu can also access it.

After the shared folder is set up, it is shown below:

Now I put a readme.md under the wmware-share folder of the host windows system:

This folder immediately appears in the directory in the Ubuntu virtual machine: / mnt/hgfs:

Enter vmware-share and you can see the readme.md file:

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