Drag and Drop to Fedora 38

[HackaMac]

Hello,

I have the Fusion 2023 Tech Preview running on an M1 Mac Studio with Ventura 13.5.  The VM is Fedora 38 created with the Fusion 13 release, then upgraded to the tech preview.  However, my problem happens on the release as well as the TP.  

When I try to drag and drop a file from the Mac Finder to the VM file manager, I get the error message in the attached screenshot.  I have the open-vm-* packages installed.  Copy and paste of plain text works as does shared folders.  I should mention I'm using the Xfce desktop in the VM.  I haven't found anything like this on the forums or in the "unofficial guides".  

When I try to drag a file out of the VM, the mouse stops at the border and the file drops on the VM desktop.

[Technogeezer]

I've seen these kinds of things happen with desktop environments other than GNOME or KDE. Some more in-depth investigation (at least on the host to guest direction) is that VMware transfers the file to the guest and puts it in a "cache" directory in the guest, but the file manager in the guest VM doesn't pick it up and move it to its proper place. It's almost as if they're not picking up the drag/drop events properly 

It wouldn't hurt to take this up with the XFCE developers to see what they think. 

[HackaMac]

Thanks for the info.  Since posting, I tried it with Gnome and KDE and have similar problems with both, except no error message pops-up.  I checked and found all the files I tried to drag into the VM in ~.cache/vmware/drag_and_drop/...  with symlinks from /tmp/VMwareDnD/....   So, I'm not sure which piece of software to blame :-).