Problems with Drag&Drop and VMWare Workstation 7
This post is from 2010 and kept as an archive. What it describes may have changed since.
Once again I had some trouble with drag&drop between the host and guest using vmware workstation 7. My host is windows 7 and the guest windows xp sp3. I don’t know exactly what fixed the problem in the end but here is what I did:
- Ensured the gust is running on 32bit color depth
- Uninstalled vmware tools, reboot, reinstalled vmware tools
- restart vmware-user process (on guest)
- restart vmware-tools service (on guest)
- Tried to disable drag and drop in the guest isolation (read this in some forum)
- Enabled drag and drop in the guest isolation options again
- Enabled VMCI in guest isolation page
- Shutdown the vmware guest system
- Restart -> fixed