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12 Replies Last post: Oct 26, 2007 11:07 AM by clauder
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vmware player shared folder?

Jun 26, 2007 10:40 AM

Click to view thor918's profile Enthusiast thor918 157 posts since
Jun 17, 2006
Okey. I have searched, and so far I have not found anything that will help me get shared folder working.

http://www.vmware.com/support/player2/doc/releasenotes_player2.html

From my vmx file:
sharedFolder.option = "alwaysEnabled"
sharedFolder0.present = "TRUE"
sharedFolder0.enabled = "TRUE"
sharedFolder0.readAccess = "TRUE"
sharedFolder0.hostPath = "H:\ghost\"
sharedFolder0.guestName = "Ghostdisk"
sharedFolder0.expiration = "never"

what is missing???

There is not a single folder listed in the shared folder meny in the player!
Reply Re: vmware player shared folder? Jun 26, 2007 10:40 AM
Click to view nick.couchman's profile Champion nick.couchman 4,969 posts since
Jan 13, 2006
Host O/S? Guest O/S?
Reply Re: vmware player shared folder? Jun 26, 2007 10:42 AM
Click to view thor918's profile Enthusiast thor918 157 posts since
Jun 17, 2006
vmware player 2.0 build45731
host os = winxp pro
guest = win2003 server

and vmware tools from vmware server 1.0.3 installed with complete option
Reply Re: vmware player shared folder? Jun 26, 2007 10:49 AM
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Click to view RDPetruska's profile Guru RDPetruska 15,420 posts since
Jan 11, 2005 Moderator
You need the Tools from Player 2 installed. And, the virtual machine needs to be a Workstation 6/Player 2 compatible version for Shared Folders to work.
Reply Re: vmware player shared folder? Jun 26, 2007 11:16 AM
Click to view thor918's profile Enthusiast thor918 157 posts since
Jun 17, 2006
I did not see any vmware tools included with player...
where do you find it?
Reply Re: vmware player shared folder? Jun 26, 2007 11:23 AM
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Click to view RDPetruska's profile Guru RDPetruska 15,420 posts since
Jan 11, 2005 Moderator
The ISO images are in the Player installation folder (on Windows hosts; they are missing from the Linux host package).
Also, how did you create this virtual machine? Is it a current version one, or an older one?
Reply Re: vmware player shared folder? Jun 26, 2007 11:50 AM
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Click to view thor918's profile Enthusiast thor918 157 posts since
Jun 17, 2006
okey. I did look in that folder. but hehe, I must have over looked the iso files..
I have now installed the vmware tools that where bundeled with wmvare player.
however shared folder does not work...

I did create this image with vmware server. not sure what version.

here is from the vmx file:
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "4"
Reply Re: vmware player shared folder? Jun 26, 2007 11:59 AM
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Click to view nick.couchman's profile Champion nick.couchman 4,969 posts since
Jan 13, 2006
I think that's an older hardware version and that you need to update to something newer. I think WS 6 and player 2 use the virtualHw.version = "6", but I'm not 100% certain about that.
Reply Re: vmware player shared folder? Jun 26, 2007 12:10 PM
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Click to view thor918's profile Enthusiast thor918 157 posts since
Jun 17, 2006
seems your right.
version 6, ok
version 7, error "Invalid configuration file. File "H:\Win2003 server - grunnimage\Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.vmx" was created by a VMware product with more features than this version of VMware Player and cannot be used with this version of VMware Player.
Cannot open configuration file H:\Win2003 server - grunnimage\Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition.vmx.
"

so version 6 is probably what wmvare player is. however shared folders does not work if I put it to V6
Reply Re: vmware player shared folder? Jun 26, 2007 12:23 PM
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Click to view thor918's profile Enthusiast thor918 157 posts since
Jun 17, 2006
working now. I think it was the maxnum that was missing.. not sure.

##### Shared Folders #####
sharedFolder0.enabled = "TRUE"
sharedFolder0.present = "TRUE"
sharedFolder0.writeAccess = "TRUE"
sharedFolder0.readAccess = "TRUE"
sharedFolder0.hostPath = "H:\ghost\"
sharedFolder0.guestName ="Ghostdisk"
sharedFolder0.eXpiration = "never"
sharedFolder.maxNum = "1"
Reply Re: vmware player shared folder? Jun 26, 2007 12:30 PM
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Click to view thor918's profile Enthusiast thor918 157 posts since
Jun 17, 2006
thank you for your help :D
Reply Re: vmware player shared folder? Jul 22, 2007 6:56 AM
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Click to view Westbrook's profile Novice Westbrook 7 posts since
Jul 21, 2007
Ach!!

I had shares working, but my fedora guest was updated by the fedora mothership.

Now my hgfs directory is empty!

I got a boot-time message to rebuild vmware-config-tools, so I did that, but my hgfs directory is still empty.

HELP!!!
Reply Re: vmware player shared folder? Oct 26, 2007 11:07 AM
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Click to view clauder's profile Novice clauder 9 posts since
Oct 26, 2007
I followed this trails. In my case, I got virtualHW.version = "4". Is it possible to upgrade the virtual machine of an existing instance? If so, how?
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