Copy/paste and drag&drop not working in VMware machine with Ubuntu

Solution 1:

I had the same problem and found that this can be fixed by executing the following commands:

1. sudo apt-get autoremove open-vm-tools
2. Install VMware Tools by following the usual method (Virtual Machine --> Reinstall VMWare Tools)
3. Reboot the VM
4. sudo apt-get install open-vm-tools-desktop
5. Reboot the VM, after the reboot copy/paste and drag/drop will work!

Solution 2:

I tried the approach suggested by solution101 above, but it didn't work for me. This is how I solved the problem:

1. Open Terminal
2. sudo apt install open-vm-tools-desktop
3. restart the guest operating system

This seems to have fixed the copy-and-paste issue for me.