Comments (13)

1. November 9, 2006
   Ben Alex

   It’s also worth noting that vmware-toolbox is essential to be running if you want automatic mouse release to work, so you can traverse from the Ubuntu guest operating system back to the your host operating system.

2. November 9, 2006
   The Geek

   Ben,

   That’s an extremely good point… thanks!

3. March 16, 2007
   Vince T

   how can you keep vmware tool running? or how to sent the windows to other desktop as mentioned?

4. June 8, 2007
   Mr Linux

   It’s worth noting that with VMware Workstation 6, this hack isn’t necessary anymore.

5. June 8, 2007
   The Geek

   Good to know!

6. June 28, 2007
   Francis Carden

   We have been working on integrating applications with a lot more than just copy and paste across virtualized environments like VMWARE. i.e. take a dozen fields from a CLARIFY application in one Citrix session and move them straight into a web application in another Citrix session.

   Doing this with VMWARE is next. It can also be triggered around say, a user clicking a button or losing focus on a control, automatically drives other applications / passes data into other virtualized applications..

   Any use ?

7. November 28, 2007
   TUCKER

   Christmas box – A

8. August 31, 2008
   asif_is_me

   Hi,

   I am trying out fluxbuntu 7.10 and couldn’t get vmware copy paste to work at all, even with the toolbox open as mentioned above. So I tried out ubuntu 8.04 and found that copy paste (and mouse capture) worked out of the box!

   This kind of thing normally irritates more than being a curiosity so i simply checked out the running vmware processes on both instances found ubuntu listing the following:

   asif@asif-vm:~$ ps -ef | grep vmw
   root 4618 1 0 03:03 ? 00:00:03 /usr/sbin/vmware-guestd –background /var/run/vmware-guestd.pid
   asif 5796 4618 0 03:10 ? 00:00:05 /usr/lib/vmware-tools/bin32/vmware-user >/dev/null 2>&1 -blockFd 11

   But fluxbuntu only showed the guest service running. So to cut a long story short, I simply started up the wmvare-user service manually, as above, and hey presto cut/copy/mouse capture all started working!

   The exact command is below:
   vmware-user >/dev/null 2>&1 -blockFd 11

   Enjoy!

9. March 19, 2009
   Tolli

   vmware-user >/dev/null 2>&1 -blockFd 11

   This fixed by Ubuntu 8.1 install as well!!! – Thanks.

10. February 16, 2010
    random

    @asif_is_me
    the command:
    vmware-user >/dev/null 2>&1 -blockFd 11
    worked perfectly!

    thanks

11. September 29, 2010
    Danilo

    Thanks asif_is_me

12. July 1, 2011
    Raja Nagendra Kumar

    Thank You.. extremely useful tip..

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13. November 9, 2011
    Mable

    Hi,

    I tried running vmware-toolbox, and kept it running.
    But I still cant copy from Windows 7, word document to a terminal virtual ubuntu, vmware.
    What could be wrong?