How to enable copy paste from between host machine and virtual machine in vmware virtual machine is ubuntu

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I am trying to copy and paste from my pc to the vm but i cant    I also enable copy and paste but i still can t copy and paste from my pc to the vm  My pc runs windows 8 1 my vm has fedora

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This worked for me  Might want to try editing virtual machine settings

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Here is a small hint that I hope might be useful to other poor saps that experienced the same issue as I did   My Setup  Host  Windows 7 Enterprise - build 7601 SP 1 VM  VMware   Workstation 12 Player  12 1 1 build-3770994   free  Guest  Fedora release 23   I naively failed to install open-vm-tools-desktop   I say naively because I had no idea such a thing existed  nor do I understand why instructions to install open-vm-tools do not  or at least where I read them  do not  include mentions of this package   Installing open-vm-tools on its own appears to be nearly useless - the desktop package makes the copy and paste function - probably the single most important function of VMTools - work   So  there you go   Install open-vm-tools-desktop  and copy-paste should work

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the mremote option offers more automation and almost replicates the vmware workstation graphical experience plus major benefits   NO DPI  guest resolution  hassle  no copy pose hassle Automation   starting vms and suspending them automatically plus more if you look deeper

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You need to install VMware Tools on your vm   To install VMware Tools in most VMware products   Power on the virtual machine   Log in to the virtual machine using an account with Administrator or root privileges   Wait for the desktop to load and be ready   Click Install Upgrade VMware Tools  There are two places to find this option    Right-click on the running virtual machine object and choose Install Upgrade VMware Tools  Right-click on the running virtual machine object and click Open Console  In the Console menu click VM and click Install Upgrade VMware Tools   Note  In ESX ESXi 4 x  navigate to VM   Guest   Install Upgrade VMware Tools  In Workstation  navigate to VM   Install Upgrade VMware Tools           Source  http   kb vmware com selfservice microsites search do language en US amp cmd displayKC amp externalId 1014294

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Are you talking about drag and drop  when you say copy and paste  If yes  you can also use Rightclick on object on your main computer and click copy  And then you go into the Virtual Machine and Rightclick the position where you want the file to get copied to   If this doesn t work use the method KaiserM11 explained and get yourselfe VMware Tools like in this Video  https   www youtube com watch v McjwI 6BKZY  Hope my answer was helpfull to you and happy coding  D

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If your VM already came with VMware Tools pre-installed  but this still isn t working for you--or if you install and still no luck--make sure you run Workstation or Player as Administrator  That fixed the issue for me

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here is another solution I started using after being fed up with the copy and paste issue    Download MRemote  for pc   this is an alternative to remote desktop manager  You can use remote desktop manager if you like  Change the VMNet settings to NAT or add another VMNet and set it to NAT  Configure the vm ip address with an ip in the same network as you host machine  if you want to keep networks separated use a second vmnet and set it s ip address in the same network as the host  that s what I use  Enable RDP connections on the guest  I only use windows guests  Create a batch file with this command  add your guest machines    vmrun start D  VM MySuperVM1 vm1 vmx nogui vmrun start D  VM MySuperVM2 vm2 vmx nogui  save the file to startmyvms cmd  create another batch file and add your vms  vmrun stop D  VM MySuperVM1 vm1 vmx nogui vmrun stop D  VM MySuperVM2 vm2 vmx nogui  save the file to stopmyvms cmd   Open Mremote go to tools    External tools Add external tool    filename will be the startmyvms cmd file Add external tool    filename will be the stopmyvms cmd file So to start working with your vms  Create you connections to your VMs in mremote    Now to work with your vm  1  You open mremote 2  You go to tools    external tools 3  You click the startmyvms tool when you re done  1  You go to tools    external tools 2  You click the stopmyvms external tool   you could add the vmrun start on the connection setting    external tool before connection and add the vmrun stop in the connection settings    external tool after  Voil

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You need to install some packages such as Unlocker  GuestOSx  etc

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