Getting shared folder in Linux distro on Mac OSX with VMware Fusion

I recently got a new MacBook and want to setup my network automation and AI lab in a fresh virtual environment. To get everything working i needed to copy some files from the host to the VM. VMware Fusion have a sharing option but this doesn't work out of the box on linux, Ubuntu in my case.

So because it was now the 3rd time i needed to search on the web, i write it down here so i can find it quicker next time.

First install open-vm-tools

sudo apt update
sudo apt install open-vm-tools open-vm-tools-desktop -y

and reboot

sudo reboot

Then check if /mnt/hgfs exists, if not exist create it with the following commands:

sudo mkdir -p /mnt/hgfs
sudo vmhgfs-fuse .host:/ /mnt/hgfs -o allow_other

Now the shared folders must be available under /mnt/hgfs.