
Workstation User’s Manual
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View Shared Folders in a Linux or Solaris 10 Guest
Forinformationaboutpermissionsettingsonthefilesyouview,alsosee“Permissions
andFolderMountingforSharedFoldersonLinuxGuests”onpage 196.
To view shared folders in a Linux or Solaris 10 guest
OnaLinuxvirtualmachine,sharedfoldersappearunder/mnt/hgfs.
OnaSolarisvirtualmachine,sharedfoldersappearunder/hgfs.
Permissions and Folder Mounting for Shared Folders on Linux
Guests
TheversionofVMwareToolsincludedinWorkstation7.0containsperformance
improvements,supportforsymboliclinksifyouuseaLinuxhost,anewmechanism
formountingsharedfolders,andpermissionsenhancements.
Performance Improvements
Host‐guestfilesharingisintegratedwiththeguestpagecache.Filesinsharedfolders
arecachedforreadingandcanbewrittentoasynchronously.However,youdonot
experiencethereadcachingbenefitsonfilesthatarebeingactivelywrittentofromthe
guest.
Tospeedperformance,usethettl(timetoli
ve)optiontothemountcommand.Usethis
optiontospecifytheintervalusedbythehgfs(host‐guestfilesystem)driverfor
validatingfileattributes.Forexample,ifyouusethefollowingcommand,attributesare
validatedevery3secondsinsteadofevery1second,whichisthedefault:
mount -o ttl=3 -t vmhgfs .host:/<share> <mountpoint>
NOTELengtheningtheintervalinvolvessomerisk.Ifaprocessinthehostmodifiesa
file’sattributes,theguestmightnotgetthemodificationsasquickly,andthefilecan
becomecorrupted.
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