I'm having a weird issue with Copy and Paste on both the VMplayer and Workstation. I have spent many hours trying to diagnose this and have finally thrown my hands up in frustration.
First, my environment is:
- Host: Ubuntu Linux version 14.04
- Vmware Workstation 10.0.2 build-1744117
- VMware Player 6.0.2 build-1744117
- VM's running Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux 14.04
- Browser on Host: Google Chrome Version 35.0.1916.153
The issue is that I cannot copy and paste text between the Host browser (Google Chrome) and any application on any Guest VM.
Here is what I can do:
- I am able to Copy and Paste files between the Host and Guest VM's.
- I am able to Copy and Paste text between other applications on the Host and applications running on the VM's.
- I am able to Copy and Paste text between FireFox, running on the Host and applications running on the VM's.
- I can use the Google Chrome browser, running in the VM's, to Copy and Paste text to applications within the same VM's.
- I can use the Google Chrome browser within the VM to transfer data to another application running on a different VM.
- I can transfer text from Google Chrome running on a VM to a text input box on the Host Google Chrome.
The common denominator seems to be Google Chrome on the Host.
Is this an issue with VMware or Google Chrome or Ubuntu Linux or a combination of the three? Has anyone else had this issue? The only work-around I have found to this is to copy the desired text on the Chrome browser of the Host to a text editor on the Host and then copy from the text editor to the desired VM application, but this is cumbersome. Any suggestions would be welcome.