Disabling Shared Folders with OSX and ESXi

[bengalih]

I'm virtualizing a copy of OSX 10.6 through 10.9 on my ESXi 5.5 server using Donk's unlocker.

 

I've installed the virtual tools that comes with that (Fusion tools i believe).  Problem is I can't disable the Shared Folders option on the client.

 

Since ESXi doesn't support shared folders, they aren't usable anyway, but it still creates a /volumes/VMware Shared Folders and you can see a shared folder quickly flash on the desktop at login.

 

I've set the following .vmx option, that others have apparently had success with:

 

isolation.tools.hgfs.disable= "TRUE"

 

But, this doesn't work on any of the versions.

 

Does anyone know how I can completely disable them on the OSX client?

[kwiksilver]

could you from command prompt run:

 

 

sudo rm -rf /Volumes/VMware\ Shared\ Folders

 

Then run

 

 

sudo mkdir /Volumes/VMware\ Shared\ Folders

and

 

sudo chmod -r 000 /Vol/Volumes/VMware\ Shared\ Folders

 

This would prevent vmware tools from accessing that folder I believe.