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VMWare - Mount Shared Folders from Linux Guests

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Prerequisites

Install open-vm-tool

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sudo apt update
sudo apt install open-vm-tools

User Mode

You can actually get this done by either using kernel mode or user mode. Here we’ll go for user mode.

  • Kernel mode client file system type vmhgfs
  • User mode client FUSE file system type vmhgfs-fuse

How to Mount the Shared Folder

The default options will mount all share folders for all guest users under the default mount point which will be at the location: /mnt/hgfs

Here’s the command for mounting shared folders using user mode FUSE client:

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/usr/bin/vmhgfs-fuse .host:/ /mnt/hgfs -o subtype=vmhgfs-fuse,allow_other

In case if you’d like to specify the target folder called /home/xxx/mySharedFolder instead of all under the general mount point, you can use following command:

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/usr/bin/vmhgfs-fuse .host:/home/xxx/mySharedFolder /mnt/hgfs -o subtype=vmhgfs-fuse,allow_other

Persistent Mounts

Shared folders can be mounted persistently in /etc/fstab.

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<file system>  <mount point>  <type>  <options>              <dump>  <pass>
vmhgfs-fuse    /mnt/hgfs      fuse    defaults,allow_other    0      0

Reference

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/60262