How to enable copy paste from between host machine and virtual machine in vmware, virtual machine is ubuntu [closed]

Answer 1

here is another solution I started using after being fed up with the copy and paste issue:

1. Download MRemote (for pc). this is an alternative to remote desktop manager. You can use remote desktop manager if you like.
2. Change the VMNet settings to NAT or add another VMNet and set it to NAT.
3. Configure the vm ip address with an ip in the same network as you host machine. if you want to keep networks separated use a second vmnet and set it's ip address in the same network as the host. that's what I use.
4. Enable RDP connections on the guest (I only use windows guests)
5. Create a batch file with this command. add your guest machines:

vmrun start D:\VM\MySuperVM1\vm1.vmx nogui vmrun start D:\VM\MySuperVM2\vm2.vmx nogui

save the file to startmyvms.cmd

create another batch file and add your vms

vmrun stop D:\VM\MySuperVM1\vm1.vmx nogui vmrun stop D:\VM\MySuperVM2\vm2.vmx nogui

save the file to stopmyvms.cmd

6. Open Mremote go to tools => External tools Add external tool => filename will be the startmyvms.cmd file Add external tool => filename will be the stopmyvms.cmd file So to start working with your vms:

7. Create you connections to your VMs in mremote

Now to work with your vm 1. You open mremote 2. You go to tools => external tools 3. You click the startmyvms tool when you're done 1. You go to tools => external tools 2. You click the stopmyvms external tool

you could add the vmrun start on the connection setting => external tool before connection and add the vmrun stop in the connection settings => external tool after

Voilà !

Answer 2

Here is a small hint that I hope might be useful to other poor saps that experienced the same issue as I did.

My Setup: Host: Windows 7 Enterprise - build 7601 SP 1 VM: VMware® Workstation 12 Player 12.1.1 build-3770994 (free) Guest: Fedora release 23

I naively failed to install open-vm-tools-desktop. I say naively because I had no idea such a thing existed, nor do I understand why instructions to install open-vm-tools do not (or at least where I read them, do not) include mentions of this package.

Installing open-vm-tools on its own appears to be nearly useless - the desktop package makes the copy and paste function - probably the single most important function of VMTools - work.

So, there you go. Install open-vm-tools-desktop, and copy-paste should work