No copy and paste after upgrading to 2.0.1

[emiliosic]

Copy & Paste between Widnows XP (32-bit, all the patches) and OS X stopped working after upgrading to 2.0.1

I rebooted both OSX and rebooted the virtual machine (instead of suspending it) and I still cannot copy/paste. All other functions seem to work as expected.

[Jasemccarty]

Have you upgraded the VMware Tools inside the guest?

It could be the tools from 2.0 not "jiving" with the 2.0.1 build.

Jase McCarty

http://www.jasemccarty.com

Co-Author of VMware ESX Essentials in the Virtual Data Center

(ISBN:1420070274) from Auerbach

[emiliosic]

Yes, I did. The VMWare tool icon notified about the upgrade after restarting the VM instance and then rebooted the guest OS.

[thomasSwe]

Hi!

The same problem here, cant Copy and Paste between OSX and VM ( but I also had the problem after upgrading to 2.0 )

PLUS: I cant access Unity mode after the 2.0 upgrade.

My Virtual Machine is Vista Premium, if that has anyting to do with it?

[mjohnson1212]

Same thing here, I can't copy and paste or drag and drop between guest XP sp3 and Mac OSx after upgrading to 2.0.1.

[superchink]

Downgrading to the VMWare Tools from 2.0.0 seems to fix this issue temporarily:

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/179719

It's not a full resolution, but it's an interim fix that works.

[emiliosic]

Yes, this seems to be the problem. Neither copy & paste nor Unity work anymore, after upgrading VMWare tools.

I'm having issues however downgrading. After removing VMWare tools, I had to revalidate my MS Windows license, and after installing the old version, some errors and few reboots later, it seems I ended up with the 2.0.1 release again. Should I replace the iso image on the /Library ? I got the old version using Time Machine and mounting it as a CD.

[Pbryanw]

I know when I installed VMware Tools 2.0.0. in Fusion 2.0.1., next time I booted my Windows machine it tried to update my Tools to version 2.0.1.

So, all I did was press cancel on the Tools installation. I haven't rebooted yet though, to see if the tools will try to re-install themselves again.