OK, IT people, learn me. I've got VMWare Workstation Player 12 running a Mint 17.3 guest. Everything's fine except that I can't get files from the Win7 host to show up. I've got open-vm-tools installed and file sharing enabled on both ends, but nothing shows up in mnt. I'm about at the limit of my Linux knowledge here, and open-vm-tools seems to be quite poorly documented. Any help would be appreciated, even moreso if it's mostly in plain, simple English.
Use Virtualbox, install the extensions pack. Done.
Sorry if that is no help. I quit VMWare a long time ago.
Does this help?
https://askubuntu.com/questions/29284/how-do-i-mount-shared-folders-in-ubuntu-using-vmware-tools
(you'll have to use pluma in place of gedit, assuming you're using MATE desktop...if you're not sure, use nano and look at the instructions at the bottom)
Huckleberry wrote: Use Virtualbox, install the extensions pack. Done. Sorry if that is no help. I quit VMWare a long time ago.
Haha I also use Virtualbox.
OK, I'm not wedded to VMWare. I'll try out Virtualbox.
OK, got VirtualBox installed and a Mint 17.3 VM set up and running. When I try to install the VB Guest Additions (necessary for file sharing), I keep getting the message that the guest machine cannot mount the ISO. Any ideas?
See if any of these work for you: http://askubuntu.com/questions/321589/unable-to-mount-the-cd-dvd-image-on-the-machine-sandbox
What is your host OS?
Win7 host. I'll tackle the suggestions tomorrow and report back. Thanks for the help thus far.
OK, per one of the suggestions in that link, I shut down the VM, ejected the ISO in the virtual optical drive through the main VirtualBox panel, and then restarted the VM and mounted the correct ISO there. GA now installed, shared drives visible on the desktop in the VM.
I had a problem with the permissions, but apparently that's common enough that I found a solution quickly (add user to the group via terminal). Seems to be working now. Thanks again.
I usually just use normal windows shares between host and guest, myself.
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