Contents of the clipboard and VMs controlled via VNC

[balubeto]

HI

I installed Workstation 8.x on Windows 7 SP1 Ultimate 64-bit and I have activated its VNC function to control the various VMs in the background using the UltraVNC viewer.

When I boot a VM in the background to control it with VNC viewer, I can not share the contents of the clipboard between the VM and the host and vice versa. Why?

THANKS

BYE

[balubeto]

Does anyone have any ideas on how to solve my problem?

THANKS

BYE

[continuum]

cant you use RDP instead of VNC ?

[balubeto]

I tried using the RDP protocol and the functionality of the clipboard works.

So, why this functionality, with the VNC protocol, does not work?

THANKS

BYE

[balubeto]

Does anyone have any ideas on how to solve my problem with the VNC protocol?

THANKS

BYE

[balubeto]

So, someone has understood why the clipboard not works?

THANKS

BYE

[Bernd_Nowak]

From my past I remember I had always trouble with copy and paste of clipboard with any VNC based products. I was always happy when it was working

Do a google search for "vnc copy paste not working" and you find a lot of hits.

I was very happy when MS introduced RDP and I could abandon VNC

[mmpr001]

I had exactly the same problem. Ocassionaly clipboard content transfer works (dunno why) I've tried enabling and disabling the clipboard transfer option on my VNC client and even manually send/request clipboard content, but that didn't work either.

Me running VMWare Workstation 7 + Windows 7 64 bit + Guest OS Windows XP + UltraVNC Client 1.0.9.6

It seems to be a bug. Please fix it!

[JL69]

This is an old post, I know, but it is the first link in a google search on this topic.

From the documentation, (the second link)

VMware Workstation Documentation Center

When you use a VNC client to connect to a virtual machine, some features do not work or are not available.

■	You cannot take or revert to snapshots.
■	You cannot power on, power off, suspend, or resume the virtual machine. You can shut down the guest operating system. Shutting down might power off the virtual machine.
■	You cannot copy and paste text between the host system and the guest operating system.
■	You cannot change virtual machine settings.
■	Remote display does not work well if you are also using the 3D feature.

(emphasis mine)

Hopefully this will bump the documentation to the top of the search!