![]() You can try all you like, but it’s now impossible to copy anything from any of the guest VM’s to the host. If you go to the Edit menu in VMWare Workstation, you’ll notice that “Paste” is enabled, but “Copy” and “Cut” are disabled. Go back to the host, but instead of pasting, copy something on the host. The problem is in VM-Ware Workstation itself. When the problem occurs, it effects ALL guests running on the host. Any suggestions of restarting processes or services on the guest will not help. This problem has nothing to do with the VMWare guest. I have tons of VM’s running anything from Windows XP to Windows Server to all kinds of Linux’s and even Solaris. I’m on a Windows 10 host with VM-Ware Workstation 14 Pro. Equally amazing is that none seems to have found the cause of the problem in the first place. There are lots of proposed solutions, but the truth is none of them really reliably work. If you are plagued with the notorious VMware copy/paste problem, and try to search for the solution, you’ll discover hundreds and hundreds of posts related to the problem going back many many years. Any idea how to get the VMware team involved? Some hints for troubleshooting and/or fixing this would be greatly appreciated. Guests: Windows 7, Windows 10, Oracle Linux 6, Oracle Linux 7 Although copy/paste continues to work within the failed guest, the contents cannot be delivered beyond the failed guest. Once in this failed state, the failed guest is not recoverable. I believe the failure occurs when the bad clipboard contents is intentionally or unintentionally attempted to be copied elsewhere (host or other guest). My immediate guess as to what might be breaking this is that something copied to the clipboard (in the guest) is not making VMware happy. Meaning, if I have Win7 and Win10 running at the same time, if Win10 fails to copy/paste correctly, Win7 will work correctly. What seems to be most interesting is that the issue tends to only occur on one guest at a time. This works for a while until whatever event causes the problem is occurs again. The only things I have found to help is to completely shutdown all guests then cleanly shutdown VMware and restart. The intermittent inability to copy/paste text from guest to guest, host to guest, or guest to host has been an ongoing problem for many versions. I thought I should add my situation for reference. Clearly no one has determined a root cause for this issue nor has VMware commented (as far as I can tell).
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