After installing the guest additions, you need to restart the guest OS to enable it.You can click the CD drive to open it then click the VBoxWindowsAdditions.exe file to install the guest additions. For Windows guest virtual machine, it will add the VirtualBox Guest Additions in the guest virtual OS CD drive.
If you install Windows on the virtual machine, you may find there is nothing happened like the above Linux virtual machine. If you install Linux on the virtual machine, you may meet an error during the above process, you can read the article How To Resolve VirtualBox Guest Additions: Kernel Headers Not Found For Target Kernel Error to learn how to fix it. Then click Devices -> Insert Guest Additions CD image… menu item to install the VirtualBox Guest Additions software in your virtual machine OS. First, you should start the virtual machine. If you’re using CentOS/RHEL 8, then check How to Install VMware Tools on CentOS/RHEL 8 VMware Virtual Machines. If you’re using a Ubuntu/Debian or any Ubuntu/Debian based operating system in the VMware VM, then check How to Install VMware Tools on Ubuntu/Debian VMware Virtual Machine. In order to mount VMware shares on Linux, you must have Open VM Tools or VMware Tools installed on your Linux VM. Once you’re done, click on OK for the changes to take effect. You can modify the Name, the Host path, share attributes from here. If you want to change any property of the share, select the share and click on Properties. If you want to remove a share, select it and click on Remove. If you want this share to be read only, check the Read-only checkbox. Make sure Enable this share checkbox is checked. I recommend you not to add spaces in the share Name. Once the directory/folder is created, you should be able to select it for sharing.īy default, the Name of the shared folder should be the name of the directory you’ve selected. If you want to create a new directory, select a directory (parent) where you want to create a new directory, type in a Folder name and click on Make New Folder. Select a directory/folder that you want to share to the VMware VM and click on OK. Now, click on Browse to select a directory/folder from your host computer. To enable Shared Folders, select Always enabled. 
Then, go to the Options tab and click on Shared Folders.īy default, Shared Folders is Disabled. To share a directory/folder from the host to a VMware VM, open the VM, make sure the VM is not powered on and go to VM > Settings. In this article, I am going to show you how to share a directory/folder to a VMware Virtual Machine (VM) and how to mount the VMware share from the command line on a Linux VMware Virtual Machine (VM).
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