However, the shared clipboard functionality is not working and when I click on 'Edit' on the vm instance all the copy/paste/delete buttons are greyed out.
#Copy paste vmware player 15 how to
Rebooting and restarting everything does not improve anything. This quick tutorial demonstrates how to disable copy/paste operations between a VMWare Workstation 16 Player virtual machine (VM) and its host machine. I have installed the VMware tools on the Windows guest through 'Virtual Machine -> Install Vmware tools' and the features such as shared Folders are working completely fine there. VMware guest isolation settings are enabled for drag & drop and for copy & paste. This all used to work once without any trouble (older version of VMware workstation, VMware tools, linux kernel, KDE, Qt, etc.). Just noticed that my abillity to copy/paste from host to guest stops as soon as I close the vmware-tools window. Subscribe to RSS Feed Mark Topic as New Mark Topic as Read. Moreover, when I try to leave the guest window with the mouse, the mouse appears to "stick" at the edge of the guest (the mouse pointer is "flung" back into the guest window a couple of times until I can proceed, the exact behavior varies). VMware Workstation Player Discussions: Ubuntu VMware tools, Copy and Paste VMware Communities Options. But copying files or drag & drop doesn't work at all. I can copy text and images from the clip board if I press Shift+Ctrl to release mouse and keyboard from the guest. I can copy stuff (files and clipboard contents) from other VMs and the host into the linux guest, even using drag & drop, but the other way fails. I use the open-vm-tools 2013.054-r3 (VMware tools are simply too much trouble and pain to build). My desktop environment in the linux guest ist KDE 4.12.5. I am running linux (Gentoo 3.15.5-hardened-r2) as a guest under VMware workstation 9.0.2, the host is Windows 7 Enterprise.
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