Shared folder and share clipboard with VMWare (Host: Windows)

• Pre-requisite: Install VMWare Tools by “Player-> Manage-> Install VMWare Tools”

** what if encountered that the “Install VMWare Tools” greyed out?
::: Open Virtual Machine Settings through “Player → Manage → Virtual Machine Settings”, shutdown the machine and change both the floppy drive and cd drives to “Auto detect” and then power on the (Virtual) machine.

• Shared Folder:

1. Player → Manage → Virtual Machine Settings → Tab Options → Shared Folders → change to “Always Enable → select a folder on host to share

2. Play the VM to boot Ubuntu

3. Shared folders in Ubuntu appear in the location /mnt/hgfs but you probably won’t be able to see it

4. To check to see if Ubuntu is aware that there is a shared folder available run this command in a terminal window vmware-hgfsclient
This will output the share name into the terminal window, e.g.
$ vmware-hgfsclient WinLinShare

5. Launch terminal & enter “sudo vmware-config-tools.pl”

6. Follow the prompts, accepting the default values

7. Check to see that your folder is now showing in the /mnt/hgfs directory $ dir /mnt/hgfs WinLinShare

8. enter ln -s /mnt/hgfs/shared-directory ~/Desktop/Name-of-the-folder in terminal then we could have the shared folder to be quick & easy access on Ubuntu

• Clipboard share between host and guest (VM)

1. sudo apt-get install open-vm-tools
2. sudo apt-get install open-vm-tools-desktop
3. restart the VM