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

Posted on 2010/01/21 by Balazs

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

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