VMware KB: Sharing a folder from your Mac to a virtual machine
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/12/23
Note that Sharing a Mac folder through VMware Fusion to a Windows VM works, but is:
- not fast
- eats a lot of Mac resources
(it would get the fan of my MacBook Air running like mad when copying about 1Gigabyte of files – about 20-thousand files total; a robocopy /mir sync when nothing is changes takes a whopping 5 minutes)
To configure a shared folder in a Windows virtual machine:
- Launch VMware Fusion.
- Power on the virtual machine.
- Click Virtual Machine > Settings.
- Click Sharing.
- Select Share folders on your Mac.
- Click the + button.
- Browse to the folder on the Mac that will be shared with the virtual machine and click Add.
Shared folders can be accessed via the VMware Shared Folders shortcut on the Windows desktop or the mapped network drive Z:.
–jeroen
via VMware KB: Sharing a folder from your Mac to a virtual machine.
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