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4 Replies Last post: Jul 1, 2008 3:43 PM by etung

Copy and paste between Mac and Windows not working

Jun 16, 2008 10:22 AM

KrisHunt 16 posts since
Jun 3, 2008

I cannot copy and paste text between Mac and Windows XP at all. As far as I know, VMware Tools is installed correctly. I have selected "Install VMware Tools" from the menu several times, and I get the message "VMware Tools has successfully been installed" each time. Any other ideas?

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Re: Copy and paste between Mac and Windows not working Jun 16, 2008 10:25 AM

WoodyZ 9,999 posts since
Apr 22, 2004

Have you tried actually tried uninstalling VMware Tools and reboot the Virtual Machine twice and then reinstall VMware Tools.

Re: Copy and paste between Mac and Windows not working Jun 27, 2008 6:16 AM

in response to: WoodyZ

KrisHunt 16 posts since
Jun 3, 2008

Nnnnno... Should it matter that I'm using an existing Boot Camp partition as my virtual machine? I know that means certain features like snapshots are disabled.

Re: Copy and paste between Mac and Windows not working Jun 27, 2008 6:33 AM

in response to: KrisHunt

WoodyZ 9,999 posts since
Apr 22, 2004

Copy and Paste is a functionality of VMware Tools and selecting the Install VMware Tools command from the Virtual Machine menu is not the way to try and correct a VMware Tools issue. You must uninstall from withing the Guest Windows OS's Control Panel and then reinstall via the aforementioned menu command. Under normal circumstances being a Virtual Machine of the Boot Camp partition wouldn't matter however since you are running Fusion 2.0 Beta 1 this could be a deeper issue and uninstalling/reinstalling may not help however I have nothing else to offer other then the link to the Fusion Beta Forum were you should be posting questions concerning issues with the Beta Release.

Re: Copy and paste between Mac and Windows not working Jul 1, 2008 3:43 PM

in response to: KrisHunt

etung 11,027 posts since
Oct 15, 2006 VMware

Moved to the Fusion beta forums.

Copy/paste is expected to work with Boot Camp virtual machines. As Woody suggests, I would try uninstalling Tools, rebooting the guest once or twice, and installing Tools.

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