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12 Replies Last post: Nov 22, 2009 4:17 PM by bhe999  

Can not "drag and drop" between host and guest posted: Oct 29, 2009 7:07 PM

Click to view bhe999's profile Novice 7 posts since
Oct 29, 2009

Host is x64 Win 7 Ultimate

Guest is x86 Win 7 Ultimate

Using VMPlayer 3

VMTools installed.

Any ideas?

Re: Can not "drag and drop" between host and guest

2. Oct 30, 2009 5:48 AM in response to: bhe999
Click to view RDPetruska's profile Guru 15,875 posts since
Jan 11, 2005

Have you enabled drag-n-drop in the settings/vmx file?

Post the vmx file.

Re: Can not "drag and drop" between host and guest

4. Oct 30, 2009 1:47 PM in response to: bhe999
Click to view RDPetruska's profile Guru 15,875 posts since
Jan 11, 2005

I don't know if/where the setting exists in the Player UI. Try adding the following to the vmx file with the VM powered off and Player closed.

isolation.tools.dnd.disable = "FALSE"

Re: Can not "drag and drop" between host and guest

6. Nov 5, 2009 10:51 AM in response to: bhe999
Click to view Urdailo's profile Lurker 4 posts since
Oct 11, 2007

Same issue but with workstation.

Drag and drop was working between VM WS 7 Build 203739 on Windows 7 Host and an XP guest.

It has now stopped working, I can ctrl-c and ctrl-v back and forth between host and guest.

Checked WIndows Update on both host and guest, don't see anything, no hardware changes except installing winrar.

Any ideas?

Re: Can not "drag and drop" between host and guest

7. Nov 15, 2009 6:41 PM in response to: Urdailo
Click to view ckousoulis's profile Hot Shot 172 posts since
Dec 14, 2007
Can you upload both the UI log and VMX log from a session in which you attempted (but failed) a drag and drop as well as a (successful) copypaste. Thanks!

Re: Can not "drag and drop" between host and guest

9. Nov 16, 2009 12:28 PM in response to: bhe999
Click to view ckousoulis's profile Hot Shot 172 posts since
Dec 14, 2007
I believe you already uploaded the .vmx configuration file.

So, from the VM's working directory I only need the vmware*.log files. There are four of them (feel free to include all four in the attachment).
The UI log, on Windows 7, is located at %TEMPT%\vmware-<username>\.
Try and find a log file for a UI session during which you attempted the drag and drop (and copy paste). You can use the About dialog (in Help > About) to see the location of the UI log file for a given UI session.

Thanks.

Re: Can not "drag and drop" between host and guest

11. Nov 20, 2009 10:52 AM in response to: bhe999
Click to view topgunli's profile Enthusiast 64 posts since
Oct 24, 2005
Can you try to enable guest tools logging and upload the log files? This log file would be much helpful for DnD issue.

To do that, run the VM, and open:
XP: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware Tools
Vista/Win7: C:\Users\All Users\VMware\VMware Tools

Then open the tools.conf file.

Add two entries:
log = "TRUE"
log.file = "C:\vmtools.log"

Then log out and log back in to your VM Wait for vmwareuser.exe to start using 100% of your cpu and upload the resulting log
files. There should be one at c:\vmtools.log and another one
at c:\vmtools.log.<process id> where process id is just a number.

Once you are done, make sure to turn off logging by removing the two entries because they can take up a lot of space over time.

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