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Drag and drop between guest and host doesn't work when Ubuntu is installed in a VMware virtual machine

Bug #1149847 reported by Martin Stolpe on 2013-03-06

This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	open-vm-tools (Debian)	Fix Released	Unknown	debbugs #736812
	open-vm-tools (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

'Drag and Drop' and 'Copy and Pase' doesn't work when I install Ubuntu in a VMware virtual machine between guest and host.

Here's what I tried so far:
-set suid flag for vmware-user-suid-wrapper (see bug report #1149811)
-made sure /tmp/VMwareDnD exists
-mounted vmbock
-installed libgtkmm-3.0 and libgtkmm-2.4 as suggested here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installing_Arch_Linux_in_VMware#COPY_AND_PASTE

I've attached the current open-vm-tools init script I'm using right now. If I start the script and run vmware-user-suid-wrapper I don't see any error messages but 'Drag and Drop' still doesn't work

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Martin Stolpe (martin-stolpe) wrote on 2013-03-06:

open-vm-tools Edit (2.2 KiB, text/plain)

Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi) on 2013-03-06

affects:

ubuntu → open-vm-tools (Ubuntu)

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Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn) wrote on 2013-03-13: thanks

importance: medium

Changed in open-vm-tools (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2013-05-06:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in open-vm-tools (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Kingshuk Dasgupta (rextrebat) wrote on 2013-05-06:

I am wondering if this is linked to https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/33835 and the inability to load the vmblock module. I do see in my dmesg - vmblock: Unknown symbol putname (err 0).