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Setting Up Shared Folders
Select:
Edit > Virtual Machine Settings > Options > Share Folders
Note: To use shared folders, you must have the current version of VMware Tools installed in the guest operating system.
Shared folders provide an easy way to share files between virtual machines and between virtual machines and the host.
When adding and using shared folders:
To create a shared folder:
- Open a virtual machine and click its tab to make it the active virtual machine.
- Select Edit > Virtual Machine Settings > Options and click Shared folders.
- Click Add to add one or more folders to the list.
- A dialog box appears. Enter the required information, then click OK.
Provide the following information:
- The name for the directory. This is the name that appears inside the virtual machine.
- The path on the host to the directory you want to share. Type in the full path or browse to the directory.
- Whether the shared folder is enabled. You may want to add a folder to the list without enabling it immediately. You can then enable the folder at any time by clicking its name in this list, clicking Properties and enabling the folder in the Properties dialog box.
- Whether the shared folder is read-only. If a shared folder is set to read-only, the current virtual machine can only view and copy files on the shared folder and cannot make changes to the shared folder and its contents.
Note: Access to files in the shared folder is also governed by permission settings on the host computer. For example, if you are running VMware Workstation as a user named User, the virtual machine can read and write files in the shared folder only if User has permission to read and write them.
- Whether to disable the shared folder when the virtual machine is powered off or suspended.
Note: You can use shared folders to share any type of file. However, Linux symbolic links do not work correctly if you try to use them via shared folders.
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