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naderawad
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Copy/paste from/to guest OS running on ESXi 6.0 build 3620759

Anyone managed to get the copy/paste work for guest OS (Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008/2012) running on ESXi 6.0 build 3620759 server ?

I've tried to:

1) set the following to false on VM itself :

isolation.tools.paste.disable

isolation.tools.copy.disable

isolation.tools.dnd.disable

2) include the following within :  /etc/vmware/config

vmx.fullpath = "/bin/vmx"
isolation.tools.copy.disable="FALSE"
isolation.tools.paste.disable="FALSE"

3) Restart whole ESXi and guest OS.

but with no luck, this is strangely difficult for no obvious reason.

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Marmotte94
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Hi,

You can use "Copy-VMGuestFile" in PowerCLI to copie a file to a VM guest.

Thank you,

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Marmotte94
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Please verify if your VMtools are running and update as well.

Thank you,

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naderawad
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Hello

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naderawad
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I absolutely did that already, its installed and up to date.

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Marmotte94
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Hi,

Please look at Screen Shoot in previous answer. Before, just connect to your vCenter from PowerCLI.

Thank you,

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imacfj
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This question comes up time and time again

The copy and paste feature between your local machine and your guest VM is only for short amounts of txt. This is for up to 64KB of plain txt, and will allow you to copy/paste within a file, but not copy the file itself

VMware Knowledge Base

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naderawad
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Thank you for your reply, do you have any reference from vmware about this ?

i do remember previously using an ESXi that has this capability on, don't recall what version it was though.

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imacfj
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Hi, please see the vmware knowledge base that i referenced in my reply. (VMware Knowledge Base )

This relates to anything after vsphere 4.1

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