The host operating system clipboard and the guest operating system clipboard can communicate. You can copy and paste text between applications in the virtual machine and the host computer or between two virtual machines. Each time the mouse pointer of your guest operating system is released by VMware GSX Server, the content of the guest operating system clipboard is copied into the host operating system clipboard. Similarly, each time the mouse pointer of your host operating system is captured by VMware GSX Server, the content of the host operating system clipboard is copied to the guest operating system clipboard.
You can only copy and paste text, not graphics or other items.
Note: This option only has effect when VMware Tools is running in the virtual machine.
Note: If you are copying text from a Windows host into a Linux guest operating system, you can paste only by using the middle mouse button. If you are using a two-button mouse, click both mouse buttons at the same time to paste.
Connect to a virtual machine with a console.
Note: Since input preferences are global and apply to all virtual machines running on a host machine, you do not need to open a configuration file before setting these preferences.
Select Settings > Input Preferences.
Select Enable Copy and Paste to and from Virtual Machine.
Click OK.
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