{"id":4834,"date":"2021-09-27T20:52:51","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T07:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/?p=4834"},"modified":"2021-09-27T20:52:57","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T07:52:57","slug":"enabling-copy-and-paste-in-esx-vm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/?p=4834","title":{"rendered":"Enabling copy and paste in ESX VM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I really wanted copy and paste between Windows and VMs running in ESX. This is what finally worked for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note this was for ESX “6.0.0 Update 3 (Build 5050593)”. I was using VMware Workstation 16 Player “16.1.2 build-17966106” on Windows 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, this only worked when I ran “Console | Launch remote console”. It did not work when I ran “Open browser console”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Go to “Edit settings | VM Options | Advanced | Edit Configuration”:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then from the “Configuration Parameters” click on “Add parameter” 3 times and you will see 3 new lines:”Click to edit key”:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Change the values in these lines to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

isolation.tools.copy.disable<\/td>false<\/td><\/tr>
isolation.tools.paste.disable<\/td>false<\/td><\/tr>
isolation.tools.setGUIOptions.enable<\/td>true<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This will give<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And it works:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I really wanted copy and paste between Windows and VMs running in ESX. This is what finally worked for me. Note this was for ESX “6.0.0 Update 3 (Build 5050593)”. I was using VMware Workstation 16 Player “16.1.2 build-17966106” on Windows 10. Also, this only worked when I ran “Console | Launch remote console”. It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[553,124,552,123],"tags":[727,726,728,343,342,244,94,308,174],"class_list":["post-4834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-centos","category-esxi","category-redhat","category-vmware","tag-paste","tag-copy","tag-copy-and-paste","tag-esx","tag-esxi","tag-player","tag-setup","tag-vmware","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4834"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4843,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4834\/revisions\/4843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}