One thing you will most likely need is the ability to share folders form the “host” OS to the “guest”. In my case, one of my test machines has WinXP2 as the host and I have SUSE as my guest. If it were Windows as the guest, then this is pretty easy, you just “browse networks and you have a virtual server that contains references to any of the shared folders you setup in VMWware.

In Linux, you must first install the VMWare tools. Here too, windows is a bit easier, just use the menu option ! However, in Linux, you must map the CD drive to an ISO (again in the VM image configuration) and point it to the linux.iso buried down in the VMWare/VMWare Workstation directory.

Once you start your image with the CD connected to this ISO image, you can open the CD drive from Linux (if you have the GUI installed this is on the desktop much like a Mac) and then launch the package installer (file with the rpm extension).

Now, open up a shell window, assume the superuser and cd to /usr/bin then “perl vmware-tools-config.pl”

You will find your shared folders under /mnt/hgfs/….

… Oh, Yeah … guess I should have said, “if you don’t know how to shutdown your Linux install, open a shell, assume superuser, and type “halt” at the prompt”. (I had to Google to find this out … boy do I feel dumb!)

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