File sharing between Ubuntu and Windows under VMware

This article records the method of sharing files between Ubuntu and Windows under VMware for your reference. The specific contents are as follows

1. First, you need to install vmware-tools under Ubuntu to realize file sharing, but you find that the virtual machine is grayed out and you cannot install vmware-tools. It is useless to set up a shared folder in the shared folder. There is nothing in the /mnt directory.

2. Next, use another method to start installing vmware-tools:

(1) Mount the image file: Virtual Machine -> Settings -> Hardware -> CD/DVD. Select "Use IOS image file" under "Connect" on the right, and browse to select linux.iso under the virtual machine package directory (note that this is the installation directory of the virtual machine VMware)

(2) After adding, start Ubuntu and open the CD file. You can see the compressed file of the vmware-tools installation package, as shown in the figure below.

The problem I encountered here was that the previous version of VMware was 10.0, and many errors would be reported when performing the following operations. After consulting the information, I found that there was a bug in the 10.0 version of the virtual machine, so I upgraded the version of VMware to 12.0 and then remounted the vmware-tools CD.

3. Open the CD file. There is a compressed package named VMwareTools......tar.gz in the folder. Click the "extract" button above, browse and select the directory to be extracted. Here, select the home/documents directory and start decompression.

Select the directory above the image below

4. Open the terminal interface, enter the cd command to documents/vmware-tools-distrib, press Enter, and then enter

sudo ./vmware-install.pl

Press Enter. You may need to enter yes or no and other options later. We just need to keep pressing Enter to complete the installation. Then restart the virtual machine. (The restart command is: reboot)

5. Set up a shared folder: (Close the virtual machine before performing the operation, otherwise an unknown error will be reported)

Open the virtual machine - Settings - Options, and then enable shared folders.

6. Start Ubuntu and look at the /mnt directory. There is already a folder called hgfs, and there are shared folders in it.

Complete all operations.

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