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 Clipboard fails to paste text & image when copied together into Windows 11

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stsandoval2337 posted Jun 18, 2026 06:39 PM

I've had a recurring issue where if I copy both text and images in one go, when I paste to my guest machine only the text survives (a blank line is pasted where the image should be, or sometimes a box with a question mark). I can copy text from my host machine and paste it to my guest machine without any issue, and if I open up an image file and copy just the image itself then it also pastes into the guest machine no problem.

So the problem is only when I copy both text and image into my clipboard together, and then try to paste to my guest machine. I'm not sure if this is a known limitation of Fusion at the moment or if the issue is specific to me, but in previous versions of VMWare (albeit ages ago) this hasn't been a problem. 

Macbook Pro M1

VMware: 26H1 (25388279)

Host OS: Sequoia 15.7.7 (24G720)

VM: Windows 11 Pro 25H2 (26200.8655)

VMWare Tools: 13.1.0.0