Guest Isolation Settings Panel

Choose: VM > Settings > Options > Guest Isolation

The guest isolation features enable you to:

•	Copy and paste text and files from the host computer to a Linux, Windows, or Solaris 10 guest, and vice versa.

•	Drag and drop files the host computer to a Linux, Windows, or Solaris guest, and vice versa. You can also drag files from a file manager to an application that supports drag and drop, or from applications such as zip file managers that support drag-and-drop extraction of individual files.

•	Copy and paste text and files, or drag and drop files, from one virtual machine to another.

To use these features, make sure you have VMware Tools installed in the guest operating systems.

One reason to disable these features is to prevent files from accidentally being transferred between the virtual machine and the host.

For information about what happens to permission settings when files are transferred between Windows and Unix file systems on hosts and guests, see the VMware Workstation User’s Manual.

 

Note These features do not work on Windows 95 and 98 guests.