I got annoyed trying to find an option to allow copy and pasting from the ESXI host directly into the VM while trying out some T-SQL queries and after looking around myself finally googled the answer for pasting into my VM. I know VirtualBox has a quick way to enable it. I eventually found instructions on vmware's website, I'm copying here to save me time looking later.
- -Screenshots are after the walk-through.
- Warning by VMWare -
If a user copies sensitive information to the clipboard before using the console, the user—perhaps unknowingly—exposes sensitive data to the virtual machine. To prevent this problem, copy and paste operations for the guest operating system are disabled by default.
- Note: This requires the VM be shut down or else you cannot even click the options
Let's get started
