topic Lost Host Copy/Paste on Fedora 33 -> 34 Upgrade in VMware Workstation Player Discussions

Lost Host Copy/Paste on Fedora 33 -> 34 Upgrade

StanGreen — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 20:34:03 GMT

I just updated my Fedora 33 to Fedora 34. I first made a copy of 33 then did the upgrade on the copied VM. I noticed that on the Fedora 34 version, the Copy/Paste from the host (Windows 10 Pro) no longer works. I went back to the original Fedora 33 VM and the host copy/paste works fine in that VM. I also tried host Copy/Paste with RHEL 8 and it works fine also. Therefore my thought is this is a Fedora 34 issue. Has anyone else seen this and if so is there a fix?

Thanks,

Stan

Re: Lost Host Copy/Paste on Fedora 33 -> 34 Upgrade

mizzouece — Sat, 02 Oct 2021 19:55:14 GMT

I'm having the same problem with Fedora 34; copy-and-paste isn't working between a Windows 10 host and the VM. File drag-and-drop between the Windows 10 host and the F34 VM is also not working.

FWIW: I'm using the KDE/Plasma spin of F34, and I've tried both the Wayland and X11 login options. (I typically use the X11 login option.)

Have you figured out a solution to this problem?

Re: Lost Host Copy/Paste on Fedora 33 -> 34 Upgrade

ajgringo619 — Sat, 02 Oct 2021 19:59:01 GMT

Using the F34-XFCE spin with open-vm-tools, EndeavourOS host. Copy/paste works as advertised; don't know about drag/drop (disabled at the moment).

Re: Lost Host Copy/Paste on Fedora 33 -> 34 Upgrade

mizzouece — Sun, 03 Oct 2021 00:37:22 GMT

It seems this is a known bug in Fedora 34 with the KDE/Plasma spin:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1953472

As of today, the workarounds that seem to work are these:

After logging in, open a command shell and manually invoke program vmware-user-suid-wrapper
OR
Follow Rex Dieter's advice in Comment 4 of the Bugzilla bug report (#1953472) mentioned above, i.e.,

* edit /etc/xdg/startkderc, set systemdBoot=false
* log out
* when logging in to plasma, choose x11 session type (instead of wayland)

Either of these two methods ensures the logged-in user has the required vmtoolsd process:

$ ps aux | grep vmtoolsd
someuser+ 17188 2.7 0.8 507108 35332 pts/1 Sl 19:20 0:00 /usr/bin/vmtoolsd -n vmusr --blockFd 3

== EDIT ==

Corrected a typo in Rex Dieter's name.