Mounting a folder shared from VMWare Workstation of Fusion Host inside a Fedora 30 through 33 Guest

by James McDonald | Jan 10, 2020 | IT Tips | 0 comments

Inside the Fedora Guest

Install open-vm-tools

In the Virtual Machine Guest Settings

Enable shared folders

VMWare Workstation Pro on Fedora 33 - Shared Folders Settings

VMWare Fusion on MacOS - Shared Folder Settings

Reboot the guest after doing the above

Commands to run on the host

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# see the shared folders available
[jmcd@localhost ~]$ vmware-hgfsclient
jmcd
 
# If you don't see the above. Shutdown the VM and configure
# the folder sharing from within VMWare Fusion for your
# host and that guest
 
# mounting the shared folder in the guest
cd
mkdir ~/host
vmhgfs-fuse host/
 
# check you have the folder available
[jmcd@localhost ~]$ ls ~/host/
jmcd

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