That's like fingers scraping on.a chalkboard. Select the Privacy Tab (on the right), scroll down to VMWare Fusion, and make sure any checkboxes are set. One other thing - if your host is a MAC you MIGHT need to go to System Preferences/Security and Privacy.

It's just very selective about who its friends are.'.

Considering that Linux is very UNIX-y, the following saying holds true: 'When asked if UNIX is a user-friendly operating system, the answer is yes it is. But I do understand the frustration with Linux for the uninitiated. I'm not sure exactly what 'will not be available' message you're talking about here. Feeback to the KDE and GNOME developers would be appropriate. It's a function of the Linux GUIs if they don't present this in a more accessible manner. You can add /mnt/hgfs to 'Places' in the Dolphin file manager or drag /mnt/hgfs to the sidebar in Files to create a bookmark. You don't have to perform a full navigation of the disk structure to find them each time though. Yes, the shared folders don't appear automagically in either GNOME's Files application or KDE's Doiphin file manager. In here you should see the folder that was shared from the host machine. You have to click Computer, then mnt, then hgfs. Select the Privacy Tab (on the right), scroll down to VMWare Fusion, and make sure any checkboxes are (and most important) the shared folders do NOT appear in an obvious place in the File UI.

Because, as near as I can tell, thats how Linux people think.

So, instead of telling you everything is fine, someone apparently thought it would be useful to tell you that if you didnt do that thing you actually did do then it would not be working now even though it IS working, but we are not going to tell you that because if you were a REAL linux guru you would obviously already know that and if you are not a real linux guru then you deserve to suffer. The 'will not be available' message appears EVEN IF ITS WORKING. Likewise you can get to it from TERMINAL via 'cd /mnt/hgfs' then do 'ls' and you should see your folder. Here are 2 important things that I found which might help.įirst (and most important) the shared folders do NOT appear in an obvious place in the File UI.

Ubuntu virtual machine shared folder