{"id":232,"date":"2011-10-05T10:07:10","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T15:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ryanbelanger.com\/?p=232"},"modified":"2011-10-05T10:07:10","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T15:07:10","slug":"vmware-esxi-copy-paste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ryanbelanger.com\/?p=232","title":{"rendered":"Enable Copy Paste in vSphere client for VMware ESXi 4.1 and later"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever tried to copy-paste from your computer to a VMWare virtual machine through the vSphere Client?\u00a0 Not working?\u00a0 Well, that’s normal according to VMWare.\u00a0 Starting with vSphere 4.1, copy-paste is disabled by default.\u00a0 See here for reference\u00a0on VMWare website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here\u00a0is an easy way to enable it for all VMs at once.<\/p>\n

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  1. Log into the service console.\u00a0\u00a0If you are not familiar on how to\u00a0do that, click here<\/a> to see my\u00a0quick post on the subject.<\/li>\n
  2. Edit file \/etc\/vmware\/config\n
    vi \/etc\/vmware\/config<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
  3. Add the following two lines to the end of the file\n
    isolation.tools.copy.disable=\"FALSE\"\nisolation.tools.paste.disable=\"FALSE\"<\/pre>\n
    \"\"<\/a>
    \nIf you’re not familiar with vi text editor, this step\u00a0can be a bit tricky so here are detailed steps.<\/li>\n
      \n
    1. Once in vi editor, before doing anything, press the “i” key<\/strong>, this will enable insert mode.<\/li>\n
    2. Scroll to the end of the file and to the end of the line and press Enter<\/strong> to add a blank line.<\/li>\n
    3. Copy the text and paste it using your right mouse button<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
    4. Press ESCAPE<\/strong> key to go out of insert mode<\/li>\n
    5. Type “:wq”<\/strong> command to write the file and quit<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    6. You’re done. Config will be enabled on the next reboot\u00a0of each VM.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
      Note<\/strong>: These options do not persist after an upgrade. If you upgrade to a newer version after enabling these options, the changes are lost and you may have to re-enable them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
      Ever tried to copy-paste from your computer to a VMWare virtual machine through the vSphere Client?\u00a0 Not working?\u00a0 Well, that’s normal according to VMWare.\u00a0 Starting with vSphere 4.1, copy-paste is disabled by default.\u00a0 See here for reference\u00a0on VMWare website. Here\u00a0is an easy way to enable it for all VMs at once. Log into the service […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanbelanger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanbelanger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanbelanger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanbelanger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanbelanger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ryanbelanger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanbelanger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanbelanger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanbelanger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}