VMWare Shared Folder in Ubuntu

lsmod | grep vmhgfs
modprobe vmhgfs

apt-get install open-vm-dkms
/etc/init.d/vmware-tools restart

mkdir /mnt/hgfs
mount -t vmhgfs .host:/ /mnt/hgfs

sudo vi /etc/fstab
.host:/ /mnt/hgfs vmhgfs defaults,ttl=5,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0

How to check the link of Network Interface between VMware and OS

I had two network interface on VMware as below. One was made for NAT and other is for bridged. So I just wonder which one is eth0 or eth1 in Linux.

 

First, find MAC address of VMware in a *.vmx file.

C:\VMImage>findstr /C:”.generatedAddress ” *.vmx
SecurityOnion.vmx:ethernet0.generatedAddress = “00:0c:29:1b:48:4d“
SecurityOnion.vmx:ethernet1.generatedAddress = “00:0C:29:1B:48:57“

 

Secondly, find MAC address of Network Interfaces.

root@sensor:~# ifconfig | grep HWaddr
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0c:29:1b:48:4d
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0c:29:1b:48:57

 

In other way, you can check MAC address of Network Interfaces.

root@sensor:~# lspci | grep -i ethernet | awk {‘print $1’} | while read pciid; do echo $pciid $(cat /sys/bus/pci/devices/*$pciid/net/*/address) $(cat /sys/bus/pci/devices/*$pciid/net/*/uevent); done
02:01.0 00:0c:29:1b:48:4d INTERFACE=eth0 IFINDEX=2
02:05.0 00:0c:29:1b:48:57 INTERFACE=eth1 IFINDEX=3

 

And then you can compare both result. In my case eth0 is NAT Network Interface and eth1 is VMnet0 Network Interface.