Enable copy and paste between a VMware vSphere guest and the host by setting isolation.tools.copy.disable and isolation.tools.paste.disable to false, either through the VM configuration parameters or by editing /etc/vmware/config from the ESXi shell.
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Just a quick post to show how to enable copy and Past on VMware vSphere Guest.
You would need to add the following to the configuration parameters....
isolation.tools.copy.disable falseisolation.tools.paste.disable false
You can also do this in ESXI Shell:
~ # ls ln /etc/VMware
~ # vi /etc/vmware/config
add:
vmx.fullpath = "/bin/vmx" isolation.tools.copy.disable="FALSE" isolation.tools.paste.disable="FALSE"
save and exit.
