VM Workstation 15 Guest suddenly shut down on drag n drop

[WolfgangAlge]

If I drag some files directly from a Zip Archive from the 7-Zip GUI (https://www.7-zip.org/) to the VM guest the guest system is shut down immediately.

I think that could be a bug. - It is reproduce-able.

Can somebody else confirm this behavior?

[Alex_Romeo]

Hi,

try reinstalling the vmware tools on the virtual machine, and try again.

Does this happen with all Microsoft or Linux operating systems?

ARomeo

[wila · Accepted solution]

Hi,

See also:

VMWare 15.5.1, dragging files in caused a vm force shutdown

So you are not the only one who is experiencing this.

Mikero is this a known issue?

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Wil

[WolfgangAlge]

Thanks for answering.

That is exactly what I had. So it is a known bug. I also tried reinstalling VMWare Tools. Same behavior.

[wila]

Not sure yet if it is known issue, I just happened to notice it was posted earlier last week.

Which is why I added Workstation's product manager to the discussion, just to make sure that VMware knows about it too.

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Wil