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Copying from host to guest fails from time to time #298

Open introom opened 6 years ago

introom commented 6 years ago

Copying from guest to host is fine, but from host to guest oftentimes fails.

However, if I do a echo "" | xsel on the guest, then the functionality seems to be re-activated and started to work again, but only for some limited time.

My environment is: Guest: Debian sid with i3 window manager. Host: Macos high sierra with Vmware fusion 11.

What message/logs to further investigate into this issue?

Thanks.

mjhorvath commented 6 years ago

I cannot get copy/paste or shared folders to work at all between guest and host and vice versa. I am able to resize and stretch the VM window however.

Host: Windows 7 Pro x64 Guest: LFA ("Linux for All") distro VMware Workstation 14 Player

jonathanvmw commented 6 years ago

@introom @mjhorvath

What version of vmtools are each of you running?

mjhorvath commented 6 years ago

I don't recall. I ended up uninstalling them and installing the regular non-open vmware tools instead.

jonathanvmw commented 6 years ago

@mjhorvath

So did that resolve your problem? And what version of tools is that?

Thanks.

introom commented 6 years ago

@jonathanvmw VMware Tools daemon, version 10.3.0.5330 (build-8931395)

I am on the debian sid, and installed open-vm-tools-desktop

lousybrit commented 6 years ago

Hi all

For the Shared Folders issues and file copy and paste issues it would be helpful to run (from /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin) /usr/bin/vmware-toolbox-cmd -v and report here the output,

Also please make sure for your linux VMs you have both the vmtoolsd processes running. Also can you run /usr/bin/vmhgfs-fuse --enabled echo $? and report the output. Finally, /usr/bin/vmhgfs-client and report its output.

For using xsel to workaround an issue I would need to check with the gui side of the code.

Thanks Steve

ghost commented 5 years ago

Hello,

I've got the same problem, maybe slightly different because copy/paste fails when I try from host to guest and from guest to host. "echo "" | xsel" does nothing.

My environment : Guest: Manjaro gnome 18.0.0 Host: Windows 10

Here is the output of the command :

/usr/bin/vmware-toolbox-cmd -v 10.3.0.5330 (build-8931395)

/usr/bin/vmhgfs-fuse --enabled echo $? /usr/bin/vmhgfs-fuse: 0 - HGFS FUSE client enabled 0

I don't have a shared folder and the vmhgfs-client doesn't exists.

Thanks for your help

Bodo-von-Greif commented 5 years ago

Same for me, copy/paste from/to host not working. Guest: Debian 9 (SMP Debian 4.9.130-2) x86_64 ESXI says: Debian GNU/Linux 8 (64-bit) VMware Tools: Wird nicht ausgeführt (not running), Version: 2147483647 (Verwaltet durch Gast, managed by client) Host: ESXi 6.0 and higher (VM-Version 11) Tried with VMware Remote console (X11 working) Tried with MobaXterm PE v11.1 Build 3860 (X11 not working!?) vmware-toolsbox-cmd -v 10.1.5.59732 (build-5055683)

/usr/bin/vmhgfs-fuse --enabled echo $? 0

please help, no copy/paste from Windows is a real show stopper

I tried again and have to correct me: MobaXterm copy and pasting in windows works. So looks like for now i have to use VMware Remote console to use X11 and MobaXterm to use copy/paste