Archyver Homelab: Pasting values from your host into your VM with ESXI 6.0, ESXI 5.5, and ESXI 4.0+

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.

It is possible to enable copy and paste operations for virtual machines if necessary.
Note: This requires the VM be shut down or else you cannot even click the options

Let's get started

Instructions:

Install VM Tools. note: This can actually be done after you've made your setting entries below.

While the VM is running, Click VM at the top of the console window
Click/Scroll down to Guest, and then click the Final Option of Install VM Tools
VM Tools is installed on each VM seperately, VM Tools also comes with your install of ESXI, there's nothing to search for to download.

Log into a vCenter Server system using the vSphere Client and select the virtual machine.
On the Summary tab, click Edit Settings.
Select Options > Advanced > General and click Configuration Parameters.
Click Add Row and type the following values in the Name and Value columns

Name Value

isolation.tools.copy.disable false

isolation.tools.paste.disable false

Note:These options override any settings made in the guest operating system’s VMware Tools control panel.

Click OK to close the Configuration Parameters dialog box, and click OK again to close the Virtual Machine Properties dialog box.
Restart the virtual machine.