Once you have completely removed VMWare tools, reboot the VM. But not 'the'folder' that resides in your VM. without sharing the base or Kernel operating system, which allows you to. Usually you could create a shared folder between your vm and ubuntu. The error would say “Unable to update run-time folder sharing status: There was an error mounting Shared Folders file system inside the guest operating system.” Setting it all upįirst, completely remove VMWare tools, by running the which is located under the bin directory from the tar file you used to install VMWare tools. VMware Workstation Player is an ideal utility for running a single virtual. The other error I kept getting was when I would edit the settings of the VM while it was running, and enable the shared folder.

I knew for a fact they were but couldn’t get past this error. I made sure I had shared folders set to yes, and kept getting an error saying I needed to run the once I made sure that gcc, buildutils, and kernel headers were installed.

The first error I came across was during the configuration using the file. I spent probably an hour or more just trying to figure out the problem and get it to work correctly, and finally was able to get something to work, here’s how…īefore I get into how I got it to work, I want to point out the two errors I was running into. While attempting to setup a shared folder through VMware Workstation 9.0.2 running on Windows 8 host, with a Linux Mint (Ubuntu/Debian) guest, and kept running into one problem after another.

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