How to realize file sharing between Ubuntu and Windows under VMware

To install caffe recently, you need to copy the files under Windows to ubuntu16.04, and then set the shared folder. During the period, you encountered some difficulties. Record them so that you will not be confused when you encounter such problems in the future.

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Closer to home:

1、 First, you need to install vmware-tools under ubuntu to realize file sharing, but found that the virtual machine is grayed out, and vmware-tools cannot be installed. It is useless to set the shared folder in the shared folder. What is in the /mnt directory nothing.

2、 Next, use another method to start installing vmware-tools:

(1) Mount the image file: Virtual machine->Settings->Hardware->CD/DVD. Select “Use IOS image file” under "Connect" on the right, browse and select linux.iso under the virtual machine package directory (note that it is a virtual machine VMware installation directory)

(2) After adding, start ubuntu, open the CD file, you can see the compressed file of the vmware-tools installation package, as shown in the figure below.

The problem I encountered here is that the previous version of VMware was 10.0, and many errors will be reported during the next operation. After consulting the data, the virtual machine of version 10.0 has bugs, so I upgraded the version of VMware to 12.0, and then restarted Load the vmware-tools CD.

3、 Open the CD-ROM file, there is a compressed package named VMwareTools......tar.gz in the folder, click the above unzip button "extract", browse to select the directory to be unzipped, here is home/documents Directory, start to unzip.

Select the directory above the image below

4、 Open the terminal interface, enter the cd command to documents/vmware-tools-distrib, press Enter, and then enter

sudo ./vmware-install.pl

Press Enter, you may need to enter yes or no in the future. I, we only need to press Enter to complete the installation. Then restart the virtual machine. (The restart command is: reboot)

5、 Set the shared folder: (close the virtual machine before performing the operation, otherwise an unknown error will be reported)

  Open the virtual machine-settings-options, and then enable the shared folder.

6、 Start ubuntu, now look at the /mnt directory, there is already a folder hgfs, and there are shared folders inside.

Complete all operations.

Some people will encounter the problem of not being able to find the hgfs folder. After consulting the information, the solutions are listed for reference:

http://blog.csdn.net/tankaro/article/details/20464253

http://www.cnblogs.com/jiu0821/p/5946062.html

http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_77bf45a901017x4a.html