VMWare : how to access shared folders (Ubuntu as guest OS) ???

[SiO4, Yong Hwan]

/mnt/hgfs/<share name>


On 2005년 12월 07일 11:20, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just installed the latest (5.5) VMWare workstation on Breezy. 
> It's an amazing piece of software... I will be very sad indeed, when the
> 30 day trial period expires...
> 
> Question: I created a virtual machine to install Windows XP, works
> perfectly, and I can access shared folders in Windows file manager,
> under "network neighbourhood", easy.
> 
> But today, I got the idea of creating another virtual machine, to run
> Linux. I installed Ubuntu Dapper Drake into it. It's very practical,
> this way I can update Dapper and assess the changes, without having to
> leave Breezy to reboot the machine. It's also ideal as I can take
> "snapshots" of Dapper, so that I can easily/quickly recover it, in case
> some update screws things up badly (kernel, Xorg...)
> But I can't see how to access my shared folder in Dapper. There is
> nothing obvious in Nautilus, no network shares or anything. 
> Where does VMWware map shared folders when the guest OS is
> Linux/Ubuntu ??
> 
> Thank you very much in advance ! :-)
> 
> 
> --
> Vince
> 
>