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Post by troglodyte on Mar 1, 2021 20:34:41 GMT
Hi,
I'm really a beginner. I have installed Bodhi Linux in a virtual machine in Windows 10. It runs well, but I cannot copy and paste from the Windows host into Bodhi.
My understanding is that I need to install open-vmware-tools to enable this, so I found how to do that with google:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install open-vm-tools-desktop
This completes without errors, but I still cannot copy/ paste
If I install Linux Mint Mate in the virtual machine, copy and paste works. I guess this has the right packages for this already installed. But I'm trying Bodhi because it is so light and I want to install only the things I need.
I hope somebody can help me with this
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Post by troglodyte on Mar 1, 2021 22:12:00 GMT
Just tried the Q4OS linux distro and that one also has no problem with copy/ paste from the host. Not sure what I'm doing wrong with Bodhi?
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Post by enigma9o7 on Mar 2, 2021 16:16:17 GMT
I do think you're on the right track about something needed to be installed in bodhi. For virtualbox, its the virtualbox-guest-additions and I don't install it from repositories, I install the version to match Virtualbox. Virtualbox has an option "insert guest additions cd" and then the VM sees it in cdrom drive, just install from there.... perhaps VMWare has something similar? Also in virtualbox it does have to be enabled in options (either one direction or bidirectionally), but I assume you already checked vmware to make sure any required copy & paste setting is enabled or you'd have those issues in other distros that worked automatically.
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Post by troglodyte on Mar 2, 2021 17:07:36 GMT
I do think you're on the right track about something needed to be installed in bodhi. For virtualbox, its the virtualbox-guest-additions and I don't install it from repositories, I install the version to match Virtualbox. Virtualbox has an option "insert guest additions cd" and then the VM sees it in cdrom drive, just install from there.... perhaps VMWare has something similar? Also in virtualbox it does have to be enabled in options (either one direction or bidirectionally), but I assume you already checked vmware to make sure any required copy & paste setting is enabled or you'd have those issues in other distros that worked automatically. Yes, you need to install something in Bodhi. For VMWare that would be open-vm-tools-desktop as I wrote in the OP. But unfortunately, copy and paste still doesn't work after that. Regarding a setting in VMWare to enable copy/paste from the host, I found with google that there should be a setting in VMWare to enable that. But that setting is not present in the version that I have (it's the free edition). And other linux distros like Mint Mate and Q4OS that I tried work fine with clipboard out of the box in VMWare, also without that setting. So the problem should be solvable in Bodhi. If I don't get it working I might continue with the Q4OS distro, but I prefer Bodhi. |
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Post by enigma9o7 on Mar 2, 2021 18:59:25 GMT
copy and paste is working correctly *within* bodhi right? It should be, unless you unloaded the clipboard module. [I'm not sure exactly what the clipboard module does, but if it is not loaded sometimes copy/paste doesnt work as expected between applications within bodhi.]
and to be clear, my suggestion about the guest additions was, dont use the version from repo, use version provided by vmware. In virtualbox case, things didn't work right for me until I installed the verison they provide (thru the insert guest additions cd option).
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Post by troglodyte on Mar 2, 2021 20:05:59 GMT
I found it! It turned out that open-vmware-tools simply didn't run at startup. I just needed to switch it on in Bodhi  Settings > Settings Panel > Apps > Startup Applications > VMWare User Agent (was disabled) I can now copy from host to client (but not the other way - but that's all I needed) |
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