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How to Paste in Virtual Machine

Hello Experts,

Can someone show me how to cut and paste into an Open Console in a virtual machine, see image. I would like paste the commands highlighted in red

Cheers

Carlton

Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

see here,

Clipboard Copy and Paste does not work in vSphere Client 4.1 and later (1026437)

and here

http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000515

first you must install VMware Tools, and then edit the configuration as posted above.

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Hi Andrew,

This is a lInux device. The demonstrations showing how to install VMware Tools are based on Windows. Is it possible to install VMware Tools on a linux box?

Cheers

John

The installation of Tools in Linux vary by Linux distribution. What distribution? Look in the VMware Knowledge base. For some distributions, I have had to install the C Compiler so that the Tools install would compile its modules correctly.

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Hello Andrew,

I'm following your guide, however in my Linux machine I don't get the same screen. The only indication I get that VMware tools is being installed is by the statement 'End VMware Tools Install', see image

Regards
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Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

Please post a new question, and we can discuss installing VMware Tools installation in detail.

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Excellent article. Thanks