(Folder sharing: Always enabled, and don't forget to put the checkmark on the Host Path box) Go to the Options tab -> Select Shared Folders -> Add. Right-click on the Virtual Machine -> Settings. Setting a shared folder in VMWare Workstation Here's a screenshot of my terminal after running the 'what I tried' commandsĪny idea on things I can do to access my shared folder in Ubuntu (my guest OS)? The next thing I did was to check if my Ubuntu guest was able to detect that there is a shared folder on my host OS by running vmware-hgfsclient and the name of my shared folder came up. I checked if open-vm-tools and open-vm-tools-desktop is installed and it is with the latest version.

Unfortunetly when I run sudo I get sudo: : command not found. In fact /mnt/hgfs doesn't even exist only /mnt/ exist.Īfter some digging around I discovered that running sudo should fix my problem.

My shared folder doesn't seem to be appearing under the default path /mnt/hgfs on Ubuntu. I have been trying to set up a shared folder but the shared folder doesn't seem to be showing up.

I have a Ubuntu 16.04 guest operating system running on a windows 10 host, I am using VMware workstation 15 player.

Vmware workstation shared folder