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How do I enable VMWare Player shared folders programmatically?

These are my virtual machine settings:

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As you can see, VMWare Workstation Player 16 allows me to enable some shared folders I set using the GUI.

Is there any way to do this programmatically while logging into the virtual machine (i.e., the guest OS)?

Solution

  • It's not possible.

    Read the warning above the disable/enable option to understand why it's not a good idea. Imagine running a VM one downloads from the internet and without user interaction, it having access to the whole host OS.

    As an alternative, you could provide a script that runs vmrun and that sets up the VM and the shared folders.