Can not "drag and drop" between host and guest

[bhe999]

Host is x64 Win 7 Ultimate

Guest is x86 Win 7 Ultimate

Using VMPlayer 3

VMTools installed.

Any ideas?

[bhe999]

I might added that i can do a copy + paste (ie: Ctrl + c in host, then a Ctrl + v in guest)

[RDPetruska]

Have you enabled drag-n-drop in the settings/vmx file?

Post the vmx file.

[bhe999]

where do i find the settings for enabling drag and drop in VMPlayer 3?

vmx file for the VM is attached.

Thanks

[RDPetruska]

I don't know if/where the setting exists in the Player UI. Try adding the following to the vmx file with the VM powered off and Player closed.

isolation.tools.dnd.disable = "FALSE"

[bhe999]

Nope. Didn't work.

[Urdailo]

Same issue but with workstation.

Drag and drop was working between VM WS 7 Build 203739 on Windows 7 Host and an XP guest.

It has now stopped working, I can ctrl-c and ctrl-v back and forth between host and guest.

Checked WIndows Update on both host and guest, don't see anything, no hardware changes except installing winrar.

Any ideas?

[admin]

Can you upload both the UI log and VMX log from a session in which you attempted (but failed) a drag and drop as well as a (successful) copypaste. Thanks!

[bhe999]

Which files do you need?

Under the virtual machine directory, i only see

nvram

vmdk

vmsd

vmx

vmxf

and then a set of log files

[admin]

I believe you already uploaded the .vmx configuration file.

So, from the VM's working directory I only need the vmware*.log files. There are four of them (feel free to include all four in the attachment).

The UI log, on Windows 7, is located at %TEMPT%\vmware- About) to see the location of the UI log file for a given UI session.

Thanks.

[bhe999]

I've attached the log files.

The scenario is as follow:

Turn on VM

VM starts up, gets into Windows 7 guest

Log in

Try drag and drop from host (failed)

Copy from host (via Ctrl + C)

Paste in guest (via Ctrl + V)

[topgunli]

Can you try to enable guest tools logging and upload the log files? This log file would be much helpful for DnD issue.

To do that, run the VM, and open:

XP: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware Tools

Vista/Win7: C:\Users\All Users\VMware\VMware Tools

Then open the tools.conf file.

Add two entries:

log = "TRUE"

log.file = "C:\vmtools.log"

Then log out and log back in to your VM Wait for vmwareuser.exe to start using 100% of your cpu and upload the resulting log

files. There should be one at c:\vmtools.log and another one

at c:\vmtools.log.<process id> where process id is just a number.

Once you are done, make sure to turn off logging by removing the two entries because they can take up a lot of space over time.

[bhe999]

I don't have the "VM Tools" folder at the specified directory in the host system

Under the guest system, there is "VM Tools" folder, but there is no tools.config file, there is only a manifext.txt

[Borek]

Just wanted to report the same issue, VMware Player 3.0, Win7 32bit host, Win7 32bit guest, drag&drop not working but I can copy/paste fine (after a few minutes after the VM startup - can it be that some guest tools services are starting up slowly?)

Regards,

Borek