With VMware Fusion mirrored folders you can map special folders on your Mac, such as Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Movies, Music, and Pictures, to their counterparts in certain Windows virtual machines. Add a Shared Folder. Remove a Shared Folder. VMware Fusion gives Mac users the power to run Windows on Mac along with hundreds of other operating systems side by side with Mac applications, without rebooting. Host/guest file sharing: Shared/Mirrored Folders: Run VM with Different View Modes. You can run as many virtual machines concurrently with VMware Fusion 10 as your system.
On Windows and macOS virtual machines, a VMware Shared Folders shortcut is created on the guest operating system. • Click the add ( +) button at the bottom of the display box. • In the Finder sheet, find the location of the folder to share, select it, and click Add. • In the Permissions field, set the virtual machine permission on the contents of the Mac's shared folder. Option Description Read & Write Enables the virtual machine to change the contents of the shared folder on your Mac.
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Read Only Prevents the virtual machine from changing the contents of the shared folder on your Mac.
Adding a Shared Folder 1. Choose Virtual Machine > Settings or click the Settings button in the toolbar to open the virtual machine Settings window. In the Settings window, in the System Settings section, select Sharing. Select Share folders on your Mac. Click the add (+) button at the bottom of the display box. In the Finder sheet, find the location of the folder you want shared, choose it and click Open. In the Permissions field, select Read & Write or Read Only.
Read Only prevents the virtual machine from changing the contents of the shared folder on your Mac. Access to files in the shared folder is also governed by permission settings on your Mac.