I am running Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3, and I have installed VMware to run virtual machines: Windows 7 and Ubuntu 11.10.
I have also installed VM Tools.
I would like to know if it is possible allow copy paste among the three systems? It seems that, by default (just by mouse) it is not permitted.
Edit1: I am using VMware Fusion 4.1.2
, and the Settings
for both Windows and Ubuntu is as follows:
Edit2: I just realize that the copy paste (both two directions) between Mac and Windows work by default. But the copy paste between Mac and Ubuntu or Ubuntu and Windows does not work…
By the way, I just want to copy texts…
Edit3: I just shut down the 2 virtual machines, and rebooted them, and copying and pasting texts among them works fine… It is really odd… So I guess I had done something on my Ubuntu, which disabled copying and pasting, then rebooting Ubuntu reset it…
Best Answer
Yes Copy and paste is supported, but it depends on what you are doing. If you are trying to copy and paste files using a right click and copy command in the Finder, and then trying to right click and paste in a Windows VM for example that will not work since VMware does not support copying files that way. When moving files between VMs Drag and drop is the feature to use (where supported with VMWare tools, etc)in order to move files from the host computer to each guest VM and the opposite is true too.
Now if you want to copy text using the clipboard, that works between the host and each supported virtual machine with the tools installed as noted in Moving and Copying Files and Text Between Virtual Machines and Your Mac
For example select text in a Mac OS X application and copy it to clipboard (Command-C). Then go into a windows VM and put your cursor in a text area and then perform a control-v you should get what you originally copied on your Mac host.
According to other documentation for VMware Workstation
The Vmware Fusion for Mac Documentation fails to mention any limitations on copy paste size limits, etc but it is same to assume the limitations are probably transferable to the Mac version of VMware as well.