VMware Workstation: configuring shared folders for Debian 11-12 and Ubuntu

 

1. Configure the shared folders.

- Before starting the virtual machine, set the VMware shared files config.

Example:

NOTE:
Debian 11 works with 6GB of memory.
Debian 12 works better with 8GB of memory.

2. Start the VM.
Ctrl+B

3. Download the following files:

- download from adrmob@gmail.com driver repo:

- anyone with this link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e12RVnHXdLjRLOrxrja3oOHkrAtOKwae/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Kjjl0ZyKzmu7RNMQuGosLLVy_D22oswy/view?usp=sharing

cd ~/Downloads/

chmod 775 run_upgrader.sh 

chmod 777 -R vmware-tools-upgrader-64

5. Execute the configuration.

- Login as root.

NOTE: if Ubuntu, it is not necessary. Just use sudo.
If Debian and sudoers is not configured, do:

su

- The following command is not really necessary because debian 11 and 12 comes with this tool installed, but just in case, you may check:

apt-get install open-vm-tools open-vm-tools-desktop

apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

apt-get install linux-headers-generic

mkdir -p /usr/src/linux-headers-$(uname -r)/include/linux

ln -s /usr/src/linux-headers-$(uname -r)/include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h /usr/src/linux-headers-$(uname -r)/include/linux/version.h

apt-get install build-essential

systemctl restart open-vm-tools

6. This step may be skipped.

cd ~/Downloads# ./run_upgrader.sh 
Ctrl+C

systemctl daemon-reexec

7. Mount the shared folder partitions.

mkdir /mnt/hgfs

mount -t fuse.vmhgfs-fuse .host:/ /mnt/hgfs -o allow_other

vim /etc/fstab

.host:/    /mnt/hgfs    fuse.vmhgfs-fuse    defaults,allow_other    0    0

systemctl daemon-reexec

mount -a

systemctl restart open-vm-tools

- Check:
ls /mnt/hgfs

The commmand shall return the shared files.
If it fails, execute step 6 and 7 again.

8. Restart the VM and login as root.

- Check:
ls /mnt/hgfs

The commmand shall return the shared files.

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Tested with VMware Workstation 17.

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