Good Evening, I use Workstation Pro 16 for my work. I use it to manage VMs after I have stood them up, and part of the process involves copying and pasting a product key into the VM to activate it...
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Good Evening, I use Workstation Pro 16 for my work. I use it to manage VMs after I have stood them up, and part of the process involves copying and pasting a product key into the VM to activate it. Before I was able to do this without an issue using Workstation Pro 14, however recently I upgraded to 16.2.2 and this feature is now greyed out. My goal is simple, I want to be able to paste a Windows product key during the initial OS installation into the VM. I have tried a number of solutions including starting Workstation as an Administrator on my work computer. However none of these solutions seem to be working for me. It is my understanding that VMWare Workstation can copy and paste short strings specifically for the purpose of using product keys for VMs. I do not believe that installing VMWare Tools will not work for me because I need to be able to do this during the initial OS install; before there is a file system to install on to. Any advice is welcome. Thanks,
