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vico
Asked: 2017-12-14 06:16:54 +0800 CST

Copy/paste not working in Vmware

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I run my Ubuntu in a VMWare virtual machine that is hosted by Win10. Vmware tools is installed.

I can't copy from notepad in Windows and paste into Ubuntu applications. Vice versa works fine. The virtual machine settings for copy/paste - enabled:

settings

How to enable copy from Windows 10 and paste to Ubuntu.

16.04

1 Answers

  1. Feels like I found an answer (I used it for 17.10 )

    In the terminal window execute this command to remove any previously installed tools:

    sudo apt-get autoremove open-vm-tools

    and after that execute this command to add tools:

    sudo apt-get install open-vm-tools-desktop

    and a final thing: do not forget to reboot.

    It worked very well for me!

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