Configuring Shared Folders in VMWare Workstation with a UBUNTU Guest OS and Windows Host

Vineet Kumar
1 min readApr 3, 2020
  1. Start VMWare Workstation, then power on Ubuntu guest OS
  2. Go to settings and choose select options tab ->shared Folderes
go to settings->options->Shared folders

3. Add shared folder created on the windows machine with full access and should be always enabled

choose Shared Folder

4. Go to guest OS (Ubuntu 18.0) and run the below commands (Install apt install open-vm-tools if not avialable)
#sudo mount -t fuse.vmhgfs-fuse .host:/ /mnt/hgfs -o allow_other
# vmware-hgfsclient

#sudo mount -t fuse.vmhgfs-fuse .host:/ /mnt/hgfs -o allow_other
# vmware-hgfsclient

5. Enjoy

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