Enable & Setup Sharing Folders in VMWare Player 2.0+
| Posted by watashii | Filed under Software
To enable sharing folders on VMWare Player guest OS (without Workstation etc), the following entries can be added in the .VMX file:
isolation.tools.hgfs.disable = "FALSE"
sharedFolder.maxNum = "1"
sharedFolder0.present = "TRUE"
sharedFolder0.enabled = "TRUE"
sharedFolder0.readAccess = "TRUE"
sharedFolder0.writeAccess = "TRUE"
sharedFolder0.hostPath = "C:\"
sharedFolder0.guestName = "MyHostCDrive"
sharedFolder0.expiration = "never"
Load your Windows guest OS and go to the VMWare Player menu > Sharing Folders… > Then check ‘Always Enable’
Your shared folder on Windows host OS (in this example C:\) can now be accessed on the guest OS via \\.host\Shared Folders\
To add more shared folders, increase the value of maxNum in .VMX file, and copy the same config settings for sharedFolder0.XXX into sharedFolder1.XXX…sharedFolder2.XXX and so forth.
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