How do I import my music and photos to Ubuntu installed on VMWare Virtual Machine?

Question

I have installed Ubuntu in VMWare, and I want to import all my movies, music and photos, to VMWare Ubuntu. How do you guys suggest I should do this?

Have you installed Ubuntu inside VMWare?? What is the host OS then & where are the files located which you would like import/copy? — AzkerM, Jan 20, 2014 at 12:06

Community · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-12 14:37:07Z

Here are the steps how you can get this done:

Start the VMware virtualization software (but don't boot the Ubuntu VM yet),
Select your Ubuntu VM and click to open the settings,
From the settings window, select Options tab and click on Shared Folders to enable and click Add... button to add one or more directories to the list of shared folders,
Click OK to save the settings and start your Ubuntu VM,
In Ubuntu VM, shared folders should appear under /mnt/hgfs, but if you don't find it there continue to step 6,
Open a terminal (press Ctrl + Alt + T) and enter the following commands
```
 sudo apt-get install open-vm-tools
```
To check to see if Ubuntu is aware that there is a shared folder available run this command in a terminal window:
```
 vmware-hgfsclient
```
To run the VMWare config tools:
```
 vmware-config-tools.pl
```

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