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2014年3月8日 星期六

Ubuntu 13.10 --- How to enable the Share Folders function of Guest VM on VMware Workstation 10

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.ScreenHunter_15How 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.ScreenHunter_03Due 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”.ScreenHunter_04"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.ScreenHunter_05The 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.ScreenHunter_07In the configuring process, we also can enable some feature as “dragging or copying files between host and guest”ScreenHunter_08After 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.
ScreenHunter_10The Share Folder function has already been opened so that we can add it by triggering the Share Folder wizard.
ScreenHunter_11To switch to the /mnt/hgfs directory so that we can see this Share Folder Name now.
ScreenHunter_12By using the vmware-hgfsclient command, we also know the Share Folder Name will appear in the /mnt/hgfs directory.
ScreenHunter_13In the Guest VM, we can explore and access the “Host” data in this share folder now.
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