Installing Home Assistant on VMWare Player 17

Is there a way to share a drive from my pc to the HASS enviroment. I know we can do it the other way via the samba share addon but that does not meet the requirement. I have files that are created in windows that I want to read into Node-red and I want to eliminate the task of having to move them from my pc into the shared folder from HASS. I also wnat to use files from my idrive that come from my iphone and this would illiminate a bunch of steps.
I tried sharing the drives via vmware but it says you need to add vmware tools?
Chat GPT brought me to this thread.

Hi there!
I came here from Google after I had a crisis and my HASS got wiped and needed to reset it.
Can you add to the guide " check if you have USB device ENABLED" on machine setting ( near Remove both New CD/DVD (IDE) and Printer as they will not be used.) if you don’t have it enabled, Zigbee Adapter won’t be found.

Hi there, anyone else experimenting network issue with bridged mode ? My vm has internet but my windows looses its connexion. Chrome returns errors on any web page

Thank you

Bridged mode is the only mode I ever run my VM’s in mostly, including HA, and it works perfectly for me.

Hi,

In my version of VMWare Workstation (17.5.x), the Configure Adapters option does not appear on Windows. Instead, look in the start menu for Virtual Network Editor. To configure the bridge-type interface, you must select the Change Settings option in the program. It should appear as VMNet0.

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You sir are my hero! Thank you very much.