Setting up shared VMWare Fusion host folders on CentOS and RHEL guest

Problem

How to view folders from the Mac that hosts the VMWare Fusion guest operating system CentOS or Red Hat Linux?

Solution

• First, make sure that the VMWare Tools are installed. That always helps.
• Next, in the WMWare configuration menu of the guest, set up the desired shared folders. There might be already a default shared folder pointing to the user’s home directory.
• Next, in the guest OS, ls -ld /mnt/hgfs will display the available shared folders.

References

[CentOS-virt] CentOS 5.1 guide for VMware Fusion