How to Enable Copy and Paste from Ubuntu VMware Guest

This is a guide on How to Enable Copy and Paste from Ubuntu VMware Guest VMware includes the ability to copy and paste to and from your virtual machine window. To enable this, you will need to install the VMware tools inside your virtual machine.

Once your VMware tools are installed, you will want to launch the vmware toolbox utility, which must be running if you want copy and paste to work.

Go to your command line, and run the following command:

> vmware-toolbox &

When you see this window pop up, you should be able to copy and paste

I usually just send the window to another desktop so it doesn’t interfere with what I’m doing. Now you can copy and paste!

12

This is copied verbatim from a vmware community forum:

1. Go into VM / Settings / Options / Guest Isolation
2. UNCHECK bothcheckboxes (Enable drag and drop, Enable copy and paste) and click OK.
3. Shut down the guest, and shut down VMware Workstation
4. Reboot the host computer
5. Run VMware Workstation but do not launch the guest yet.
6. Go into VM / Settings / Options / Guest Isolation for the guest, and
7. CHECK both checkboxes
8. Power On the guest.

Tested on: Ubuntu Dapper, Ubuntu