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NathanC

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Registered: 2021-02-22

Posts: 2

drag and drop doesn't work from guest OS (win 10 pro) to host arch

Hi, I'm new to the arch linux.
I've installed arch and vmware workstation pro according to wiki doc, used yay -S vmware-workstation
everything works fine until I tried to drag and drop (and copy and paste) a file from guest OS (windows 10) to the host (arch linux KDE plasma).
I can do this without a problem from arch to guest os. but not in reverse direction.
everytime I try drag and drop, there's nothing happens, no error msg even. but if I use copy and paste to a folder under dolphin, I got following error msg: the file or folder/GRgTKr/Firefox setup 85.0.exe does not exist
And I can see actually the file was stored under /home/user/.cache/vmware/drag_and_drop/GRgTKr/. it just can not paste to my pointed destination. but if I copy a piece text like a command, I can successfully paste it in a terminal windows on the host.
every time I repeat the scene the system log shows below info:
2/22/21 4:11 PM dolphin kf.kio.core: Invalid URL: QUrl("x-special/nautilus-clipboard")
2/22/21 4:11 PM dolphin kf.kio.core: Invalid URL: QUrl("copy")
2/22/21 4:11 PM dolphin "The file or folder /GRgTKr/Firefox Setup 85.0.exe does not exist."
don't know if this is help or not.
I've searched a lot, but no lucky.
Could anyone help me out of this?
thanks,

NathanC

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Registered: 2021-02-22

Posts: 2

Re: drag and drop doesn't work from guest OS (win 10 pro) to host arch

Here's a quick update, it's very weired, I created a new guest OS (win 10 pro), from both guest OS, I can't drag and drop files to arch host, but I can copy and paste a file (a word document), when I try copy and paste a exe file or a zip file, when I switch back to dolphin on arch host, right click on any folder I want to paste to, it became paste 3 itesm( should be "paste one file"), and when I select it, got that error msg again.
anyone knows what the hell is going on?

ilsensine

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Registered: 2013-03-26

Posts: 32

Re: drag and drop doesn't work from guest OS (win 10 pro) to host arch

2/22/21 4:11 PM dolphin "The file or folder /GRgTKr/Firefox Setup 85.0.exe does not exist."

I am observing the same problem.

It is stripping the prefix. Correct path should be /home/<your user>/.cache/vmware/drag_and_drop/GRgTKr/Firefox Setup 85.0.exe. You can access the GRgTKr folder manually from this path, your file is here. You can use this trick as a workaround until the problem is best investigated.

In my case, it used to work before the last KDE+vmware update. Not sure who is to blame exactly (vmware, kde, or some dbus service).

progandy

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Registered: 2012-05-17

Posts: 5,190

Re: drag and drop doesn't work from guest OS (win 10 pro) to host arch

Can you look what exactly vmware is setting to the clipboard?

xclip -t TARGETS -o
xclip -t x-special/nautilus-clipboard -o

If KDE runs a clipboard manager, maybe that interferes as well?

Last edited by progandy (2021-03-03 10:27:59)

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ilsensine

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Registered: 2013-03-26

Posts: 32

Re: drag and drop doesn't work from guest OS (win 10 pro) to host arch

The first xclip command returns:

text/plain
UTF8_STRING
STRING
TEXT
text/html
TARGETS
MULTIPLE
TIMESTAMP
SAVE_TARGETS

The second command does not return anything.

progandy

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Registered: 2012-05-17

Posts: 5,190

Re: drag and drop doesn't work from guest OS (win 10 pro) to host arch

That was for clipboard not drag/drop, so have you copied a file in vmware first.

Edit: Or try

xclip -t text/plain -o

Last edited by progandy (2021-03-03 10:53:16)

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ilsensine

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Registered: 2013-03-26

Posts: 32

Re: drag and drop doesn't work from guest OS (win 10 pro) to host arch

Yes, sure, I copied a file from the vm before.

In the meantime I switched back to vmware player 15.5.1, and it worked correctly. In this case, xclip -t TARGETS -o is different:

TIMESTAMP
TARGETS
MULTIPLE
x-special/gnome-copied-files
text/uri-list
UTF8_STRING
vmware-target

Additionally, xclip -t executed for x-special/gnome-copied-files, text/uri-list and vmware-target all returns

file:/var/run/vmblock-fuse/blockdir/Zj91yv/MT02-2105.xlsm

I'll restore ver. 16.1 and try the same on text/plain.

@NathanC, if you want to use vmware player 15.5.1 it will solve your problem, but you need to backup the kernel sources from 16.1 (vmmon.tag and vmnet.tar from /lib/vmware/modules/source) and restore them after downgrading.

ilsensine

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Registered: 2013-03-26

Posts: 32

Re: drag and drop doesn't work from guest OS (win 10 pro) to host arch

Back to 16.1, and...

xclip -t TARGETS -o
Error: target TARGETS not available

Weird.

Maybe I made a mistake in the previous try (sometimes the copy command from my vm is not executed). Now I am sure it was executed (tried the "paste" and got the expected error. The file is present in the .cache dir).

ilsensine

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Registered: 2013-03-26

Posts: 32

Re: drag and drop doesn't work from guest OS (win 10 pro) to host arch

Another piece.

With vmware 15.5.1 I have this mounted:

vmware-vmblock on /run/vmblock-fuse type fuse.vmware-vmblock (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other)

With 16.1, vmware-vmblock is NOT mounted.