Vmware drag-and-drop failure resolution

Vmware Workstation client Forced restart causes copy-paste, Unity, drag-and-drop operations to fail

From http://tunps.com/vmware-workstation-copy-paste-not-working

Sometimes file copy-and-paste between the host OS and guest OS is invalidated when the VMware Workstation client OS is forced to restart. The workaround is to restart the Vware tools service process. Run:

"C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools\vmtoolsd.exe" –n vmusr

It is also necessary to confirm that the following key values exist in the registry hkey_local_machine\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run:

VMware Tools REG_SZ "C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools\VMwareTray.exe"VMware User Process REG_SZ "C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools\vmtoolsd.exe" -n vmusr

Reference: Unity, Copy/paste, and Drag-and-drop do not work under restarting a virtual machine with Auto-login enabled

Vmware drag-and-drop failure resolution