How to share the windows folders to vmware guest

 2.Go to options and click on always enabled.

3.Add the path which you want to share to guest operating system. Here i am sharing Unix directory from drive Y:

4.Its up to you that  how you want to share the folder.If you click on read-only, you can not copy files from Unix to  share folder.

5.Click OK to finish the wizard. Go back to OS console view by selecting view–>current view–>console.

6.Login to guest OS and see the new window shares will be mounted under /hgfs mount point.
bash-3.00# df -h

Filesystem             size   used  avail capacity  Mounted on
rpool/ROOT/s10x_u9wos_14a
                       9.8G   3.7G   4.7G    45%    /
/devices                 0K     0K     0K     0%    /devices
proc                     0K     0K     0K     0%    /proc
mnttab                   0K     0K     0K     0%    /etc/mnttab
swap                   386M   448K   385M     1%    
fd                       0K     0K     0K     0%    /dev/fd
swap                   385M   156K   385M     1%    /tmp
swap                   385M    44K   385M     1%    /var/run
rpool/export           9.8G    23K   4.7G     1%    /export
rpool/export/home      9.8G    21K   4.7G     1%    /export/home
rpool                  9.8G    32K   4.7G     1%    /rpool
/hgfs                   16G   4.0M    16G     1%    /hgfs
bash-3.00# cd /hgfs
bash-3.00# ls -lrt
total 9
drwx——   1 root     root        8192 Apr 15 01:23 UNIX
Now you can easily transfer files from base OS to guest.For you information ,you share multiple folders to guest.


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