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hossein_haeri
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Guest Isolation Lost After Upgrade to VMWare 17

I have used VMWare on my various Windows systems over a decade to host an old KUbuntu friend (that has always been kept up-to-date). I recently updated my VMWare Workstation from 16 to 17. I realised after the update that the cross-OS copy/paste facility was no longer around.

I tried to search online for a cure and it turns out that my player now doesn't even have that "Guest Isolation" anymore. My player looks like the one here:

https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Player/Missing-Guest-Isolation-and-other-option...

I even added the command-line equivalents to my .vmx manually and no change. My last retreat was reinstalling my VMWare tools in my guest OS (KUbuntu 22.04) and was extra cautious to enable the copy/paste and dnd over the installation. Unfortunately, none of those worked. Any idea?

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Kaha_isadmin
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Hi :slightly_smiling_face:

I'm using Kubuntu 22.04 too and i had the same issue.

I solved it by unininstalled open-vm-tools and reinstall it + added open-vm-tools-desktop.

sudo apt remove --purge open-vm-tools
sudo apt install open-vm-tools open-vm-tools-desktop

I hope its can help you !

Regards.

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hossein_haeri
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184 views and still no response? Not even recommendations for how to provide more useful information about the situation? How lively is this community?

Here is my workaround, for what it's worth: I use a shared folder between the two OSes as my manual clipboard.

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Kaha_isadmin
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Hi :slightly_smiling_face:

I'm using Kubuntu 22.04 too and i had the same issue.

I solved it by unininstalled open-vm-tools and reinstall it + added open-vm-tools-desktop.

sudo apt remove --purge open-vm-tools
sudo apt install open-vm-tools open-vm-tools-desktop

I hope its can help you !

Regards.

hossein_haeri
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Hi Kaha_isadmin,

Yes, that did the job for me. Thanks!

Strangely enough though, my KUbuntu told me initially that I didn't have any `open-vm-tools` when I tried to remove it. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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