Thursday, October 11, 2012

Problem of sharing folder in CentOS guest by VMWare

Host: Mac OS X 10.8.2
VMWare 5.0.1
Guest: CentOS 6.3 x86_64

Problem:
Cannot share a folder in OS X to CentOS, the /mnt/hgfs directory is empty.
When toggle the on/off of folder sharing in VMWare options, it reports errors that cannot mount directory.

Cause: unknown!

Solution: Reinstall the VMWare tools by selection the "Virtual Machine -> Reinstall VMWare tools".

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