Specifications

4 Click OK to save your changes.
Disable Folder Sharing for a Virtual Machine
You can disable folder sharing for a specific virtual machine.
Procedure
1 Select the virtual machine and select Player > Manage > Virtual Machine Settings.
2 On the Options tab, select Shared Folders.
3 Select Disabled to disable folder sharing.
4 Click OK to save your changes.
Mapping a Virtual Disk to the Host System
Instead of using shared folders or copying data between a virtual machine and the host system, you can
map a virtual disk to the host system. In this case, you map a virtual disk in the host file system as a separate
mapped drive. Using a mapped drive lets you connect to the virtual disk without going into a virtual
machine.
Map or Mount a Virtual Disk to a Drive on the Host System
When you map a virtual disk and its associated volume to a drive on the host system, you can connect to the
virtual disk without opening a virtual machine.
After you map the virtual disk to a drive on the host system, you cannot power on any virtual machine that
uses the disk until you disconnect the disk from the host system.
IMPORTANT If you mount a virtual disk that has a snapshot and then write to the disk, you can irreparably
damage a snapshot or linked clone created from the virtual machine.
Prerequisites
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Power off all virtual machines that use the virtual disk.
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Verify that the virtual disk (.vmdk) files on the virtual disk are not compressed and do not have read-
only permissions.
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On a Windows host, verify that the volume is formatted with FAT (12/16/32) or NTFS. Only FAT
(12/16/32) and NTFS formatting is supported. If the virtual disk has mixed partitions, for example, one
partition is formatted with a Linux operating system and another partition is formatted with a
Windows operating system, you can map the Windows partition only.
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Verify that the virtual disk is unencrypted. You cannot map or mount encrypted disks.
Procedure
1 Select the virtual machine and select Player > Manage > Virtual Machine Settings.
2 On the Hardware tab, select Hard Disk, click Utilities, and select Map.
3 On a Windows host, leave the check box Open file in read-only mode selected in the Map Virtual Disk
dialog box.
This setting prevents you from accidentally writing data to a virtual disk that might be the parent of a
snapshot or linked clone. Writing to such a disk might make the snapshot or linked clone unusable.
4 On a Linux host, select the Mount in read-only mode check box in the Mount Disk dialog box.
This setting prevents you from accidentally writing data to a virtual disk that might be the parent of a
snapshot or linked clone. Writing to such a disk might make the snapshot or linked clone unusable.
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