Timeline for Copy & paste from linux guest to windows host fails
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| Jan 22, 2015 at 8:53 | answer | added | Kristoffer Lindahl | timeline score: 0 | |
| S Aug 28, 2014 at 23:30 | history | bounty ended | countermode | ||
| S Aug 28, 2014 at 23:30 | history | notice removed | countermode | ||
| Aug 25, 2014 at 11:08 | comment | added | harrymc | 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. | |
| Aug 25, 2014 at 10:41 | comment | added | countermode | 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. | |
| Aug 25, 2014 at 9:58 | comment | added | harrymc | 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. | |
| Aug 25, 2014 at 8:57 | comment | added | countermode | As I said, I'm using open-vm-tools (freshly updated); VMware tools are just a PITA. At least for Gentoo they simply suck. | |
| Aug 25, 2014 at 8:55 | comment | added | harrymc | 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. | |
| Aug 23, 2014 at 19:42 | answer | added | jjk_charles | timeline score: 7 | |
| S Aug 22, 2014 at 6:56 | history | bounty started | countermode | ||
| S Aug 22, 2014 at 6:56 | history | notice added | countermode | Draw attention | |
| Aug 14, 2014 at 8:28 | history | asked | countermode | CC BY-SA 3.0 |