{"id":1025,"date":"2025-03-31T16:35:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T14:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jakobsens.net\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2026-08-14T13:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T11:34:10","slug":"mount-host-drive-in-vmware-workstation-guest-on-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jakobsens.net\/?p=1025","title":{"rendered":"Mount host drive in VMWare Workstation Guest on Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Use the command:<br><br>$<code>> sudo vmhgfs-fuse .host:\/ \/mnt\/hgfs -o subtype=vmhgfs-fuse,allow_other<\/code><br><br>It&#8217;s important to add <strong>-o subtype=vmhgfs-fuse,allow_other<\/strong> else the mount will not work<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To mount during boot: <br>Create the directory: \/mnt\/hgfs<br>Add below to \/etc\/fstab:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>Ubuntu:\nvmhgfs-fuse \/mnt\/hgfs fuse defaults,allow_other 0 0<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><code>Fedora:<br>vmhgfs-fuse \/mnt\/hgfs fuse defaults,allow_other,_netdev 0 0<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Use the command: $> sudo vmhgfs-fuse .host:\/ \/mnt\/hgfs -o subtype=vmhgfs-fuse,allow_other It&#8217;s important to add -o subtype=vmhgfs-fuse,allow_other else the mount will not work To mount during boot: Create the directory: \/mnt\/hgfsAdd below to \/etc\/fstab: Fedora:vmhgfs-fuse \/mnt\/hgfs fuse defaults,allow_other,_netdev 0 0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jakobsens.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jakobsens.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jakobsens.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jakobsens.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jakobsens.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jakobsens.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1081,"href":"https:\/\/jakobsens.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions\/1081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jakobsens.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jakobsens.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jakobsens.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}