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  • Try to reinstall VMware tools. Sometimes it helps, but in my experience the problem always returns. You could open a ticket with VMware Support, but this very old problem exists on many configurations since long time and was never solved.
    – harrymc
    Commented Aug 25, 2014 at 8:55
  • As I said, I'm using open-vm-tools (freshly updated); VMware tools are just a PITA. At least for Gentoo they simply suck.
    – countermode
    Commented Aug 25, 2014 at 8:57
  • VMware tools were always a PITA, but might work better than open-vm-tools in your case. As I said, impossible to predict which configuration and VM will have that problem. I think it's better to avoid suspending the VM, because VMware tools in my case don't fully work on power up. Funny that you can't find a pre-built version.
    – harrymc
    Commented Aug 25, 2014 at 9:58
  • Well, the prebuilt tools themselves do work - kind of. I have the same problem as described in the Q with them and did some VMware-Kung-Fu just to achieve nothing at all. But the VMware kernel drivers (e.g. for vmhgfs) simply don't build. This is why I dumped VMware tools.
    – countermode
    Commented Aug 25, 2014 at 10:41
  • My last trick that I can contribute is in Guest isolation to disable drag & drop, click OK, then re-enable and again OK. Sometimes this makes it work until next time (using VMware tools). Sometimes also reinstalling VMware tools again makes it work for at least the current session.
    – harrymc
    Commented Aug 25, 2014 at 11:08