Unable to copy / paste in VMware Workstation 16 Player

Background

  • Default install of VMware Workstation 16 Player
  • Default install of Windows 10 Professional

Issue #1

Copy/Paste, ie. the kindergarden of computing, doesn’t work.

Suggestion to install VMware tools.

Issue #2

In the VMware Workstation UI, the Virtual Machine / Install VMware Tools… menu is disabled
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Issue #3

Found link on VMware website to install VMware tools which is needed to complete this operation. Link behind registration.
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Be careful when you fill in the form because their forms is designed so that when you make a correction advertising is switched on again automatically.

Unable to copy paste in VMware Workstation 16 Player

Solution

Go through the registration sequence and you’ll end up with copy/paste. Hurray for 2021 computing from VMware.

Link to tools (but follow the train):
https://my.vmware.com/en/web/vmware/downloads/info/slug/datacenter_cloud_infrastructure/vmware_tools/11_x

Total Time Taken

Something like copy / paste should take 10 seconds, it took me 15 minutes to get this rather technical task done. Pity the poor new computer users who want to copy / paste.

References

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Workstation-Player-for-Linux/16.0/com.vmware.player.linux.using.doc/GUID-1109A03F-3BD3-4292-AEF6-D943445519B5.html

 

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