Failed to copy paste from guest to host in VMW Workstation 12 Pro

[mahece28]

Hi guys,

            I'm using VMware Workstation 12 Pro in my windows 7 64 bit machine. My guest operating system is windows xp service pack 3. I tried to copy files from guest operating system to my host system. Its failed. Even failed to copy from host to guest too. I thought that file transfer might be disabled. I checked VMware setting--> options tab--> guest isolation-->drag and drop / copy and paste grey out. Can't check and uncheck the box. I've attached the image file below.

How to solve this problem?

[Scillonian · Accepted solution]

Do you have VMware Tools installed on the Windows XP VM?

Also note that if the VM is running these options are greyed-out.

[wila]

Hello,

Could it be that your guest is set as a shared VM? Move it to unshared and it should enable again.

See also this post:

How to enable clipboard sharing for shared vms?

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Wil

[mahece28]

Thanks guys... Thanks for replies. After i installed the VM tools. Its working fine. Thank you...