- set up the shared folder in Vmware station, with the guess os turned off: go to settings/Options/Shared Folders, choose the folders, and make sure you choose “Always enabled” as the “folder sharing” option.
- power on Ubuntu 18.4, and install open-vm-tools:
sudo apt install open-vm-tools open-vm-tools-desktop - make a folder:
sudo mkdir -p /mnt/hgfs - mount the shared folder:
sudo /usr/bin/vmhgfs-fuse .host:/ /mnt/hgfs -o subtype=vmhgfs-fuse,allow_other
or sudo mount -t fuse.vmhgfs-fuse .host:/ /mnt/hgfs -o allow_other
then the shared folder will appear in /mnt/hgfs/
reference link: https://gist.github.com/darrenpmeyer/b69242a45197901f17bfe06e78f4dee3
Work notes 