Vmware: Copy and paste into Virtual machine? [SOLVED]

szensz-siempre

Does anyone know if it is possible to cut and paste into a virtual machine running on vmware-server??

I have a bunch of files from /home that I would like to place in a directory for use in a virtual machine and would like to find out what the easiest way to do this is.

Thanks in advance for any help

Vitaliy · Guru Joined: 06 Apr 2004 Posts: 451 Location: Brooklyn, NY

VMware Tools should allow you to do that.

szensz-siempre · Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 7:51 am Post subject: vmware tools can't install

Thanks for the reply Vitality,

That is precisely my problem. In order to run vmware tools i need NT with service pack 6. I have the original disk of NT 4.0 which comes with service pack 1. I have downloaded service pack 6a in gentoo, now I need to get it into the virtual machine before I can use vmware tools. I am unable to download it in IE, I think the version is too old.

Anyways seeing now if I can make a samba share with the virtual machine

szensz-siempre · Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 8:11 am Post subject:

I got it working by simply setting up a shared drive to which I could connect both computers, I could then copy the update to the virtual machine and now I can use vmware-tools.

Thanks again Vitaliy for the post, there's nothing worse than posting a problem and being the only one that responds to it