VMWare Centos7 Shared Folder Setting.
I use Centos7 in VMWare 15. But when I tried to set Shared Folder by Menu: VM->Setting->Options->Shared Folder, it did not work. After searching resolution on internet, I found valid method as following:
- VM->right click Menu choose Reinsall VMWare Tools...
- The VMWare Tools disk will appear on the desktop, click in to copy VMareTools-xxxxxx.tar.gz on somewhere; If you use centos minimal installation, you could use following commands to mount cdrom:
mkdir /mnt/cdrom mount -t /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
cd /mnt/cdrom
cp VMWareTools-xxxxxx.tar.gz /home
cd /home - User command "tar zxf VMareTools-xxxxxx.tar.gz" to extract file.
- Go into the extracted file folder, for example:"vmware-tools-distrb", run a terminal as root.
- Run "./vmare-install.pl" to start resintall, click Enter when prompt to confirm default setting.
- If installation finished, go to directory "/usr/bin", run "./vmware-config-tool.pl" with default options.
- If no error occurs during the process, your can run the "ls /mnt/hgfs" command to check the shared folders.
I meet with tips:"The path "" is not a valid path to the 3.10.0_xxx.el7.x86_64 kernel headers" when I try to install vmware tools by rum 'vmware-install.pl', I get one valid solution as following:
yum install gcc* yum install kernel* yum install kernel-devel reboot #select the newest kernel version
run the "./vnmware-install.pl" again.
If this method doesn't work, try to found include files in the directory follows:
/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build/include/linux