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Using which product are you trying to achieve this ? VMware Workstation or VMware ESX ?<br />

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Using which product are you trying to achieve this ? VMware Workstation or VMware ESX ?


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You can just drag and drop files between the Virtual Machine and the local machine. Sometimes it just takes a few seconds for the files to be ready to copy. &nbsp;<br />

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You can just drag and drop files between the Virtual Machine and the local machine. Sometimes it just takes a few seconds for the files to be ready to copy.  


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I know I can Share a drive on my Virtual Machine with my local machine. How do I make the files on my local machine available to my virtual machine. I would like to leave them where they are and just access and update them from virtual machine - if possible.
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I know I can Share a drive on my Virtual Machine with my local machine. How do I make the files on my local machine available to my virtual machine. I would like to leave them where they are and just access and update them from virtual machine - if possible.

Local Machine Files on Virtual Machine

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

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Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.