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

Question

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.

Solution 1

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.

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Source: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1014294

Solution 2

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

Solution 3

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

Solution 4

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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