In general, the share folders function will be enabled automatically after installing the VMware tools on the Windows platform. It is a little different status if the Guest VM O.S. is Linux platform. When I install the VMware Tools on Ubuntu 13.10 x64 OS, the share folders function is disabled.How to resolve this problem?
At first, we have to check whether the Share Folders module is loaded now by using the lsmod | grep vwhgfs command.Due to nothing happens, we can try to load this module again by using the modprobe vwhgfs command but the result is “Module vmhgfs not found”."Maybe the VMware Tools installation fail”,I miss myself. I decide to realize whether other modules about VMware Tools is loaded then by using the lsmod | grep –i vm command.The good news is that some module exist and is loaded normally. So I decide to redo the VMware configuration by using the sudo ./vmware-config-tools.pl command and accept to the default answer when it ask me whether wish to enable the shared folders feature.In the configuring process, we also can enable some feature as “dragging or copying files between host and guest”After finish the above configuration, please reboot VM for the new feature to take effect.
To log on the system and run the lsmod | grep vmhgfs command again, we can find out the Share Folders module is existing and running now.
The Share Folder function has already been opened so that we can add it by triggering the Share Folder wizard.
To switch to the /mnt/hgfs directory so that we can see this Share Folder Name now.
By using the vmware-hgfsclient command, we also know the Share Folder Name will appear in the /mnt/hgfs directory.
In the Guest VM, we can explore and access the “Host” data in this share folder now.