No drag and drop / copy and paste possible with VMWARE Fusion 10.0.1 (6754183) on macOS High Sierra 10.13

[FisyX]

After update from VMWARE fusion 9 to 10 and migrating my virtual machine with the marked functionalities for integration drag and drop as well as copy and paste are not function anymore.

Please assist.

Regards

Thorsten

[wila · Accepted solution]

Hello Thorsten,

These type of issues are almost always due to a broken VMware Tools install.

Do not try a repair install from within the Guest OS as it likely will not fix this, unfortunately the "Reinstall VMware Tools" from the drop down menu also falls in that same category.

You really need the guest OS to reboot inbetween uninstall and install to make sure that all the files from VMware Tools are in the correct locations and of the correct version.

In short follow these steps:

• Uninstall VMware Tools
• Reboot guest OS
• Install VMware Tools
• Reboot guest OS.

Follow the steps from the installer to completely uninstall VMware Tools 

• Reboot the guest OS.
• Then from the Virtual Machine menu select "Install VMware Tools"

If no installer appears, go to the DVD-rom within windows and click "setup" (for 32 bits windows) or "setup64" (for 64 bits windows)

Once you see an installer, click "Next" until Finish, keep the defaults.

• Reboot the guest when done installing (it will ask by itself to reboot)

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Wil

[FisyX]

Hi Wil,

thanks for fast responding to my issue.

Problem was solved by your instructions.

Regards

Thorsten