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  • 1.  How to make copy-paste work on VMware fusion 13 on Mac OS with Ubuntu guest?

    Posted Jan 30, 2024 09:02 PM

    I have just installed VMware fusion on my M3 mac and created an Ubuntu 22.04 guest. Most things seem to work including ability to share file folders BUT the most essential thing for me the ability to cut-paste text between my mac windows (for instance my Chrome browser and the Linux terminal do not work. I run a server version of Ubuntu without graphics support making this even more important and something I need to do all the time...

    There are tons of questions about this topic on Internet from many years back in time making it almost impossible to find up-to-date info for Fusion 13 and M chip ARM Macs...

    As I have understood it the vmware-tools are no longer used with Ubuntu and instead open-vm-tools should be used and I do indeed have these as well as the over vm tools desktop packages installed. Support for copy-paste was already enabled under isolation in the vm settings.

    Is there anything else I need to do to make this work or is this simply not supported today and I need to try some other virtualization solution??  



  • 2.  RE: How to make copy-paste work on VMware fusion 13 on Mac OS with Ubuntu guest?

    Posted Jan 30, 2024 09:18 PM

    It's supported and it works - for Ubuntu environments that are running a graphical session.

    I'm running Ubuntu 22.04.3 with the HWE kernel (6.5.0-15) and the Ubuntu Desktop packages installed. I have both open-vm-tools and open-vm-tools-desktop installed (you need both). Copy and paste of text works fine for me. 

    You aren't specific about what you're doing, but one common issue we see is that copy/paste needs you to be running a graphical session under Wayland or X11. If you're running Ubuntu Server, you may be using a tty console season and copy/paste does not work for that. The workaround is to ssh into the VM from the host, then it will work because you're copy/pasting from a Mac app. 



  • 3.  RE: How to make copy-paste work on VMware fusion 13 on Mac OS with Ubuntu guest?

    Posted Jan 31, 2024 05:03 AM

    No I am talking about normal non-graphical terminal Windows (not using X in any way or form). In the past I have used both virtual box and VMware (with Vmware client tools when they where supported) and not had any problems copy / pasting between terminal Windows so it seems odd if this is no longer working, i.e. the new tools seems to be a "downgrade"...



  • 4.  RE: How to make copy-paste work on VMware fusion 13 on Mac OS with Ubuntu guest?

    Posted Jan 31, 2024 07:01 AM
     wrote:

    No I am talking about normal non-graphical terminal Windows (not using X in any way or form). In the past I have used both virtual box and VMware (with Vmware client tools when they where supported) and not had any problems copy / pasting between terminal Windows so it seems odd if this is no longer working, i.e. the new tools seems to be a "downgrade"...

    I've not seen copy/paste work for non-graphical sessions in Fusion (and I've been working with Fusion since Version 1.0). I don't believe this to be.a "new tools downgrade" issue. There's no clipboard on console tty sessions for VMware to hook into like there is for an app (yes, even a terminal emulator such as xterm or Terminal) in an X or Wayland environment. 

    I just installed a Ubuntu server. It installed open-vm-tools. No copy/paste available. But if I try to install open-vm-tools-desktop to try and get the desktop-focused features (including copy/paste), it wants to drag along X and Wayland as dependencies. 

    If open a Terminal from the Mac, and then ssh into the VM, copy/paste works fine. That's because the Terminal on the Mac supports copy/paste. 

    If you have or had it working for a non-graphical environment under Fusion, could you tell us how you did it?