I have an issue using VMware Workstation that has bothered me for a while (OK, that is an understatement, it drives me nuts), but until a recent "project" required continuous copy / paste from my workstation to VMs accessed via VMware workstation, I never attempted to resolve.
So finally I spent some time researching, but still can't resolve the issue. Apparently there should be options in virtual machine settings that allow copy and paste to be turned on, thereby obviating the need to use Edit > Paste every single freaking time I want to paste something into a VM. Not a single VM I have has the guest isolation option available, its not that its greyed out, it simply doesn't exist.
I show those guest isolation settings in a random screenshot grabbed off the interwebs below as a point of reference.
Any idea as to how I can enable guest isolation? VMware Tools are of course installed and even I even attempted an uninstall / reboot / reinstall and no bueno.
Potentially relevant information follows:
So finally I spent some time researching, but still can't resolve the issue. Apparently there should be options in virtual machine settings that allow copy and paste to be turned on, thereby obviating the need to use Edit > Paste every single freaking time I want to paste something into a VM. Not a single VM I have has the guest isolation option available, its not that its greyed out, it simply doesn't exist.
I show those guest isolation settings in a random screenshot grabbed off the interwebs below as a point of reference.
Any idea as to how I can enable guest isolation? VMware Tools are of course installed and even I even attempted an uninstall / reboot / reinstall and no bueno.
Potentially relevant information follows:
- Host: VMware ESXi 6.5.0 Update 1 (Build 7388607)
- Workstation Pro Version: 14.1.1 build-7528167
- VM: Any OS