Copy and paste not working within a virtual machine console with Guest OS running Mac OS X

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

You experience these symptoms when running Apple Mac OS X guest OS within a virtual machine:

• From the virtual machine's console, you cannot use the copy and paste feature to copy the clipboard contents to the workstation or server on which you are using the vSphere Client
• You cannot use the copy and paste feature to copy the clipboard contents from your workstation or server inside the virtual machine

Environment

VMware vSphere ESXi 5.0

Cause

Copying and pasting into and from an Apple Mac OS X virtual machine console is currently not supported.

Resolution

VMware is aware of this issue.

Currently, there is no workaround.

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