File sharing between VMware and host
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I hope this is the best place to ask this question. Few days back I installed VMWare workstation 5 on Vista Home Basic as host. I have installed Windows XP as guest OS in the VMWare. While installing I had set the network connection as "NAT : Share host's IP Address". I guess it is because of this I am able to access Internet from the guest OS. I want to share files between the host and the guest OS. Can someone help with this? Here are some info in case it is required. Virtual network settings summary VMnet0 (bridged) :- Bridged to automatically chosen adapter. Subnet : 255.255.255.2 VMnet1 (Host-only) :- A private network shared with host. Subnet : 192.168.175.0 DHCP : Enabled VMnet8 (NAT) :- Used to share host's IP address. Subnet : 192.168.240.0 DHCP : Enabled
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I hope this is the best place to ask this question. Few days back I installed VMWare workstation 5 on Vista Home Basic as host. I have installed Windows XP as guest OS in the VMWare. While installing I had set the network connection as "NAT : Share host's IP Address". I guess it is because of this I am able to access Internet from the guest OS. I want to share files between the host and the guest OS. Can someone help with this? Here are some info in case it is required. Virtual network settings summary VMnet0 (bridged) :- Bridged to automatically chosen adapter. Subnet : 255.255.255.2 VMnet1 (Host-only) :- A private network shared with host. Subnet : 192.168.175.0 DHCP : Enabled VMnet8 (NAT) :- Used to share host's IP address. Subnet : 192.168.240.0 DHCP : Enabled
I haven't used VMware Workstation 5, but in version 6 there's a Shared Folders feature in the VM settings where you can configure folders to share with the VM. These then appear under a fake network computer called '.host', so you can access it by going to Start, Run and entering \\.host as the address. You need the VMware Tools installed on the VM for this to work. VMware support Workstation on Windows Vista as of version 6.
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I haven't used VMware Workstation 5, but in version 6 there's a Shared Folders feature in the VM settings where you can configure folders to share with the VM. These then appear under a fake network computer called '.host', so you can access it by going to Start, Run and entering \\.host as the address. You need the VMware Tools installed on the VM for this to work. VMware support Workstation on Windows Vista as of version 6.
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I don't know about the version 6 but version 5 do not have such option .... can you suggest a way out?? I hope the info I have given is useful to think about the problem..!!
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Set up a network share in the usual fashion, the VMware host and guests appear to each other as separate computers connected by a LAN.
The network is already set I guess on the host. So am I supposed to use Subnet : 192.168.175.0 (Refer my first post). How do I use it. Bcz on the guest nothing is visible. Cant see any network on the guest. Or is it that I am supposed to create a new network? How do I do it? Please bear with me as I am unknown to these things
modified on Friday, September 19, 2008 6:06 AM