I'm using VMware Fusion 11.5.6.
Host is Mac OSX 10.15.6 Catalina and guest is Ubuntu (sorry don't know version number - how to check?) and I can't copy and paste from host to guest.
I thought the problem was VMware Tools because it wasn't installed. After enabling CD/DVD ROM device using linux.iso as the image, I was given an option to install VMware Tools when I booted the VM. A folder named "vmware-tools-distrib" opened up in the VM - I followed the instructions by unzipping the tar.gz file, running ./vmware-install.pl in terminal and got it installed.
After rebooting the VM again with VMware Tools now installed, copy and paste still does not work however.
Got it working now by doing sudo apt install open-vm-tools-desktop instead.
You could check ubuntu version by 'cat /etc/lsb-release' in terminal.
Bundled vmware tools is dropped for most of Ubuntu guest, please install open-vm-tools instead, 'sudo apt install open-vm-tools'. also there's some problem for wayland, so please do not select 'ubuntu on wayland' as user logging in.
My Ubuntu version is 18.04.
I did sudo apt install open-vm-tools and it installed without any problems, but host->guest copy paste is still not working.
Got it working now by doing sudo apt install open-vm-tools-desktop instead.