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Zolotoy
Contributor
Contributor

How do I enable Copy and Paste between Host and Guest

I am running W7 64 host and W 8.1 64 guest.

Any idea?

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Zongmin
VMware Employee
VMware Employee


Hi Zolotoy,

Welcome to the community!

To enable Copy and Paste between host and guest, you need to make sure vmwaretools is installed.

btw, which version of Workstation are you running?

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Immortal
Immortal

Wokstation: Cutting, Copying and Pasting Text

~dGeorgey

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Zolotoy
Contributor
Contributor

I am running vmware player 6.0.Did not find an option to turn on and off copying and pasting.

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RDPetruska
Leadership
Leadership

Discussion successfully moved from VMware Workstation to VMware Player

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Zolotoy
Contributor
Contributor

I am new to vmware and very confused. Is this copy and paste problem known to the community? Am I the only who is experiencing it?

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RDPetruska
Leadership
Leadership

Have you installed the VMware Tools in your guest?

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Zolotoy
Contributor
Contributor

Yes, sure.

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RDPetruska
Leadership
Leadership

OK, what are you trying to copy/paste?  Copy/paste only works with text... files can only be drag/dropped.

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Zolotoy
Contributor
Contributor

Text it is. That's all I need.

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