n/a

[Alex_Romeo]

Hi,

https://www.tenforums.com/virtualization/2526-cant-drag-drop-windows-10-guest-vm-workstation.html

I found another person having the same difficulty and in response someone noted that setting the previously mentioned options in Workstation makes the following entries to the .VMX file for a VM. They suggested trying these settings to see if they affect Player. The person with the issue stated that these settings resolved the issue.

In your case, adding these lines, if not already present, to your VMX file. You want to set them all to "FALSE".

These options disable drag and drop:

isolation.tools.copy.disable = "TRUE"

isolation.tools.dnd.disable = "TRUE"

isolation.tools.paste.disable = "TRUE"

These enable it:

isolation.tools.copy.disable = "FALSE"

isolation.tools.dnd.disable = "FALSE"

isolation.tools.paste.disable = "FALSE"

ARomeo

[wila]

Hi,

An additional note is that if you do not have those lines in your guest then you do not have to add them.

In that case your problem is not triggered by guest isolation, but it is a problem with the VMware Tools installation itself.

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Wil

[Alex_Romeo]

Hi,

fine thanks!

ARomeo

[ikujura]

n/a

[wila]

Hi,

OK, the hgfs settings is specific for the host-guest file system. In other words it is about the shared folders option.

If you created the VM in VMware Player then there should be no guest isolation lines in there either as it isn't a VMware Workstation Player feature.

The drag and drop and clipboard sharing should "just work".

As that isn't the case, the most likely issue is that VMware Tools isn't installed properly.

Meaning that you probably installed it properly, but that the install is bodged.

What I would try in your case is to uninstall VMware Tools, reboot the Windows XP guest and then reinstall VMware Tools.

Note that the reboot in between is mandatory to make sure that it works correctly.

You could also try a repair installation, it seems to work better than it did in the past.

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Wil

[Kilroy_Bukowski]

I have been fighting this with vmware workstation version after version, the internet is full of people having this problem for years.  Pretty much there is nothing from VMWare on this.  Clipboard is a super basic function that was invented more than 20 years ago yet vmware still cant manage to make it work in any consistent manner. I have done everything possible from reboots to reinstalling vm tools, running workstation as admin, setting manual vmx isolation settings, nothing works. Occasionally after I wasted an hour or two on it, it would work for 10-15 minutes but recently I cant get it to work at all. For a power user, not having clipboard is an absolute nightmare.  The time I have spent trying to resolve this issue over the years has cost me way more time than the money I spent on he software.  VMWare Workstation clipboard and the lack of VMWare giving any care about the problem is infuriating. I never see any responses form VMWare, only customers begging for an answer.    Total garbage VMWare!

[wila]

Hi,

If the clipboard sharing works and then stops working after a while I tend to run the following:

taskkill /F /IM vmtoolsd.exe
"C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools\vmtoolsd.exe" -n vmusr
pause "just ran C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools\vmtoolsd.exe -n vmusr"

Instead of typing those commands I have them saved as a batch file and run it once the clipboard sharing breaks.

Then -at least for me- it's a matter of waiting about one minute and a few failed tries to see the clipboard sharing back working again.

Far from ideal, but a lot better than having a broken feature.

FWIW, I have no idea why VMware seems to be unable to fix this, but I do know that clipboard sharing -with so many other tools also hooking into this- is more difficult to get right then one would expect from such a feature.

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Wil

[TechDemon78]

Did you guys find fix to this?  I am thinking when I created windows 10 golden image I chose Windows 10 Education and now want to go back and choose Windows 10 Enterprise I have never had clipboard option not available only after I started using Education as my base image.

[RaSystemlord]

@TechDemon78 

Yes, I have used VMware on a Windows Host for 15+ years and the clipboard option always works with Windows VM computers. Very seldom, something happens and a VM reboot is required in order to get it working again. I have traditionally used no other option for file sharing between host and guest and that has included typically GBs of data.

As mentioned above, the missing guest isolation option plays no role in this. So, opening a discussion with the correct header, might help to draw attention to the matter.

Host and guest OS's seem to make a big deal in this. When having Linux computers in the mix, host or VM, I have lately never observed this to work. I think it worked with Ubuntu 14.04 and before.