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.
Tags: shared folders, vmware, vmx
Install and Run Ubuntu on VMWare Player
| Posted by watashii | Filed under Programming, Software
This was my first attempt installing a Linux operating system, and I decided to run it over VMWare on top of my Windows XP system. Its the perfect way for me to trial an operating system without changes to my system boot-up. This post shows how I got the Guest OS Ubuntu 8.10 (Desktop) running on the Host OS Windows XP (32-bit). And it was fairly easy it turned out.
Source files: [Ubuntu.zip]
