I am testing VMware Workstation Pro 16 on Windows 10, and the guest is Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with VMware Tools installed.
I configured a shared folder in the context of VM > Settings
; however, it does not show up in the guest virtual machine's directory of /mnt/
.
Please let me know if you need more details, and I highly appreciate any hints or suggestions.
A little more details about the settings:
This YouTube video was about VMware Player. So, I tried the settings on both VMware Workstation Pro and VMware Player, and the results were the same, not working. My steps are:
- In context "VMware Workstation > VM > Settings > Options > Shared Folders", configure the intended folder as "Always enabled".
- Power on the guest virtual machine.
- On the guest VM, look for the shared folder in directory
/mnt/hgfs/my-shared-folder/
, but it didn't work as described in the post.
In my case, the command vmware-hgfsclient
was aware of the shared folder, but the directory /mnt/
was empty, and there was no /mnt/hgfs/
. See the screenshot below for more details.
Screenshot:
root@ubuntu:/home/work/Desktop# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
Release: 22.04
Codename: jammy
root@ubuntu:/home/work/Desktop# vmware-toolbox-cmd -v
11.3.5.31214 (build-18557794)
root@ubuntu:/home/work/Desktop# vmware-hgfsclient
my-shared-folder
root@ubuntu:/home/work/Desktop# ll /mnt/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 19 04:02 ./
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 May 21 14:14 ../
root@ubuntu:/home/work/Desktop#