File sharing between windows host and VMware windows system.

When we are working as a SAP Basis administrator or system administrator we need to install some software components in to VMware virtual machine.

So that time we need to copy those files to VMware machine and start installing where we have the file in our original host machine and it’s a time consuming process to do so.

instead we can share the folder/file which we required in our virtual work station and here I am using windows 7 machines as host system and windows 2003 server as VMware virtual machine.

Make sure you have installed VMware tools in your virtual machine before you share any files with your virtual system

Follow the below steps to do it.

1. Go to VMware and click VM then settings option

2. Now go to options tab in the settings screen

3. Select shared folders and click “always enabled” option right side of the window and check “Map as a network drive in Windows guests” right below

4. Now you need to add sharing file link which you need to access from VMware virtual machine

In the same screen click “Add” button àclick “Next” and select the folder/file which you wish to access it and click “Next” button

5. Click the “Enable this share” and “Read only” check boxes in the next screen and then click finsh button

6. Now you can see the folder link is added from your host machine to virtual machine

7. Now click “OK” button in the screen and check your virtual machine My computer where your shared folder is added as a shared network drive

8. Here you no need to restart your virtual machine to take effect and now enjoy directly accessing your required host files from your virtual machine instead copying it