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