vmware workstation pro 12 resize guest window

Such service is needed by VM to “see” shared folders, “detect” abd adapt to new resolutions (when you resize window of VMware Workstation) and share clipboard exactly. If you use your Linux VM, you probably should have VMware Tools already installed, in most distributions that may be open-vm-tools or something very similar. But because they still haven’t solved it this is the reason why I’ve written this post.ĭon’t even bother option “Guest Isolation” with VM settings, I know this is already enabled in your hypervisor.ĭon’t shutdown guest or host, it’s not needed here.

This is a definitely a some kind of VMware Workstation/Player bug and needs to be solved by VMware ultimately. Some of them were marked as Solved but I think most of these solutions don’t solve this problem or at least solve until next time. There are many, many more threads like these. Workstation 14, Host (windows) to Guest (linux) Copy / Paste not working Solved: Copy paste not working in VMWare Workstation 15 Pro after the 15.0.3 update Workstation 15.0.4 Copy/Paste From Guest to Host not working Drag and Drop not working Solved: Windows 10 - Version 1903 - Freezing on Copying file Unfortunately this issue is very well known among community and affects many previous versions of VMware Workstation/Player:Ĭant copy/paste from guest to host - a very first and old threadĬopy/Paste Not Working To/From Ubuntu Guest OS VMWare Fusion 6 - macOS This is especially annoying as the clipboard is very useful in every day’s task (I suppose not only for me). In such case, if you copy something to the host’s clipboard, the guest’s clipboard can’t see it (and vice versa). If you sleep/hibernate your laptop, you may go to fullscreen mode with a game, then the issue sometimes may appear.

Stops - it means sharing clipboard has been turned on in VM settings and usually it works when VM is newly started but it stops somehow when you use your computer for extender period of time, especially if you use sleep/hibernation. If you used Windows 7 or you are using now Windows 10 and VMWare Workstation/Player with a Linux guest you may encounter the very prevalent issue when clipboard sharing suddenly stops working (between the host and guest).

Vmware workstation pro 12 resize guest window