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Shares between host and guest

From http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/file-sharing-between-a-virtual-machine-and-the-host-machine-457763/

file sharing between a virtual machine and the host machine is possible. If, for example, your main OS was Linux and the OS in your VMWare session was Windows you could do the following:

Use bridged networking in VMWare so that the VMWare clients can see the rest of your network;
Enable/create "Share Folders" on the Linux box (in the option tab) that will be visible to the Windows VMWare client;
Map drives to the shares (or connect directly with UNC notation) from the Windows VMWare client.

documented on: 06-24-06, gilead (Steve)

Shares between host and guest

From

Samba issues
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installing_VMware#Samba_issues

The guest os under vmware cannot see a samba share running on the linux host. To fix this problem, edit /etc/samba/smb.conf and make some changes under [global]. The following are suggested:

workgroup = YOUR_WORKGROUP
netbios name = YOUR_SERVER_NAME
encrypt passwords = yes
socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_KEEPALIVE SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
interfaces = eth0 vmnet1 vmnet8
sysv shm key=/dev/vmnet1
bind interfaces only = true

This page was last modified 01:25, 18 February 2008

documented on: 2008-02-26