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How do you create a shared folder to the host using vSphere?

VMWare player and workstation has the ability to easily create a shared folder directly to the host:

http://www.vmware.com/support/ws5/doc/ws_running_shared_folders.html

This feature seems to be missing or is moved in vSphere. How do you set it up in vSphere?

Thanks.

Solution

  • This feature doesn't make sense with vSphere, which is why you can't find it.

    Workstation, Player, Server all run on top of a "host OS" while ESX (vSphere managed) runs on bare-metal. You're not supposed to have access to the native file system on the host - so there is no option to do so.