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I’ve had a really annoying issue with a linux (Centos) VMWare image in Fusion on Mac OSX, where the permissions on files created by the VM on the HGFS shared folder meant that it couldn’t write to those files (or directories) subsequently. The way to solve this is to set the uid in /etc/fstab on [...]

I wanted to add a shared folder to a linux VMWare image in VMWare player, and got thoroughly nowhere. Thanks to the magic of EasyVMX though, I know now the secritz. In the .vmx file of the VM , add: sharedFolder.option = “alwaysEnabled” sharedFolder0.present = “TRUE” sharedFolder0.enabled = “TRUE” sharedFolder0.readAccess = “TRUE” sharedFolder0.writeAccess = “TRUE” [...]