Copy/Paste Not Working To/From Ubuntu Guest OS VMWare Fusion 6

[EricRFMA]

Host OS: Mac OS 10.9.5

Guest OS: Ubuntu GNU/Linux 3.12.17-editshare3 x86_64

VMWare Fusion Version: 6.0.5

Simply put, copy and paste don't work at all between the host and guest OS' in either direction.  It's enabled in the Preferences->Isolation control panel. VMWare Tools are installed.

File share does work.

Drag and drop does not work.

Any ideas?  I don't know where to even start.

Thanks!

-Eric

[j2222]

I get the same problem on Professional Version 7.1.0 (2314774).

OS X host, Ubuntu 14 guest - I've tried ticking boxes, re-installing VMWare, re-booting host and guest, all to no avail.

Is this getting worked on?

Rgds,

James

[avanish321]

I managed to fix this issue by performing following steps in ubuntu vm

run following command in terminal .

sudo apt-get autoremove open-vm-tools  ( it removes the open-vm-tools that gets shipped with ubuntu along with all the dependencies )

Now install VMware Tools by following the usual method and reboot the VM

Next try installing open-vm-tools desktop package by running following command

sudo apt-get install open-vm-tools-desktop      ( for some reason this package was necessary for desktop screen resizing feature to function )