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In the Virtual Machine Settings window, switch to the Options tab and select the Shared Folders setting on the left-hand side.

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Click the pencil icon in the Location Bar and enter the following string: smb://. After the VMware tools are installed, open the Player menu, point to the Manage menu, and then select the Virtual Machine Settings option.

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Select Network from the Places menu, which will probably only show a Windows Network icon.

If you don't see either the icon or the mount, try uninstalling and reinstalling VMware Tools (this happened for me when an old version was originally installed), then disable and re-enable Shared Folders and reboot. Step 2: Access the share from OpenSolaris.

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When I need to access files that are on the Mac OS X side from within Windows, I go the VM preferences and enable each folder I want to share (you can share multiple folders form different locations). I have a Boot Camp partition as well running Windows 7. If there's no icon, check in Finder->Preferences.->General if "Connected servers" is checked: I recommend using the Shared Folders feature in VMware Fusion.In the filesystem, it's a vmhgfs mount at /Volumes/VMware Shared Folders: You should now have a "VMware Shared Folders" icon on desktop in which you will see the folder you've created. The purpose of a creating a shared folder is to transfer documents between your Mac running Catalina (HOST) and.

Press Next and OK everywhere until all dialogues close View Shared Folders in a Windows Guest by Mapping Them as a Drive You can view your shared folders between your Mac and Windows by mapping them as a drive in Windows. View Shared Folders in a Windows Guest by Using Windows Explorer You can use Windows Explorer to view shared folders between your Mac and Windows. You can move text by copying and pasting or cutting and pasting. There are two types of shares: Permanent shares, that are saved with the VM settings. You can drag files and folders to move and copy them between your virtual machines and your Mac. See Section 7.31, VBoxManage sharedfolder add/remove. and add a shared folder (pick any host folder that you have access to and any name) From the command line, you can create shared folders using VBoxManage, as follows: VBoxManage sharedfolder add 'VM name' -name 'sharename' -hostpath 'C:test'.

Enable VMware Shared Folders for the VM.

After finishing, the installation will restart the system.

If a security dialog pops up saying that a system extension was blocked, do as it says: go into security settings, allow the VMware system extension to run and when prompted for restart, choose to restart later.

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Unlike other answers posted so far, this one explains how to connect the host and guest via VMware Shared Folders.