How to: Copy and Paste in vSphere Client 4.1 and later

Do you want to copy and past from and to your VM consoles?

Here’s how to enable it per Virtual Machine:

1. Power down the VM
2. Right click the VM and choose Edit Settings.
3. Navigate to Options > Advanced > General and click Configuration Parameters.
4. Click Add Row.
5. Type these values in the Name and Value columns:
   • isolation.tools.copy.disable – false
   • isolation.tools.paste.disable – false

   Note: These options override any settings made in the VMware Tools control panel of the guest operating system.

6. Click OK to close the Configuration Parameters dialog, and click OK again to close the Virtual Machine Properties dialog.
7. Power on the virtual machine.

And per host:

1. Log in to the ESX/ESXi host as a root user and open the /etc/vmware/config file using a text editor.
2. Add these entries to the file:
   isolation.tools.copy.disable="FALSE"
isolation.tools.paste.disable="FALSE"
3. Save and close the file.
4. The setting will be activating when (re)starting the virtual machines running on the host.

Source: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1026437

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