Hi,

I have a fresh debian VM under VMware W0rkstation.

I was wondering how can I pass data between the host (Windows :/ and the VM) with the VM being fully offline is it possible ?

Tested and not working:

  • host sharing a network drive (SMB) not possible as debian will require the install of cifs-utils
  • create a virtualized NTFS drive. not possible need ntfs-3g for debian

Any ideas ?

note: open-vm-tools is impossible either as I want to install it without being connected ton the www.[1]

Thanks.

  1. World Wide Web (aka internet) ↩︎

  •  ReversalHatchery   ( @ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org ) English
    1•3 months ago

    Not sure whether open-vm-tools is needed for that, but you could try using the clipboard for the purpose. Compress the data and BASE32 encode it. Maybe also split it to smaller units so that it fits any clipboard limits.

    How much data do you want to transfer?

    You could also consider copying open-vm-tools to the VM this way, and then you could make use of proper shared folders.