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BradMacPro
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Fusion support for copy and paste question.

I couldn't get an answer to the question from VMware, so I'll ask it here. Can you copy and paste graphics and not just text between a host and a guest operating system? The intended host is macOS 10.15 Catalina and the guest would be say macOS 10.13.x High Sierra or macOS 10.14.6 Mojave, in order to support old 32-bit applications. It's my understanding that the competition Parallels Desktop, now at version 15.1 does this.

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Mikero
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Anything that goes on the clipboard goes between both host and guest.

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Michael Roy - Product Marketing Engineer: VCF
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wila
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Hi,

To clarify @Mikero's answer, it is: Yes, you can copy & paste text, graphics or anything else that is on the shared clipboard (rich text comes to my mind).

For example I regularly copy and paste screenshots from macOS guests (or my host) to Windows guests.

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