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Copy and paste file fails on Debian Linux guest from Windows 11 host

Open ward-horsfall opened this issue 1 month ago • 3 comments

Describe the bug

It seems that any file unless very smalll cannot be dragged and dropped into a Linux guest. Either the paste option does nothing or it is disabled all together.

Reproduction steps

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Expected behavior

Paste should work and drop file regardless of size

Additional context

No response

ward-horsfall avatar Oct 24 '25 19:10 ward-horsfall

https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/issues/765

zhengqwe avatar Oct 26 '25 12:10 zhengqwe

Please share more info about your issue so that we could help. Detailed Linux version info for the VM What type of your host? fusion or ws version and the Host OS version How large is the file you've tried? Does that mean <4MB for small?

pngzhencao-bc avatar Oct 28 '25 03:10 pngzhencao-bc

Of course sorry I should of put more info in there.

Here is the details on my host:

Edition Windows 11 Pro for Workstations Version 25H2 OS build 26200.6901 Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.26100.253.0

VMware Workstation: 25.0.0.24995812 VMware® Workstation Pro 25H2

Linux Guest: Debian 13.1.0

OS: Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie) x86_64 Host: VMware20,1 Kernel: Linux 6.12.48+deb13-amd64 Uptime: 55 seconds Packages: 1624 (dpkg) Shell: bash 5.2.37 Display (Virtual-1): 2358x1199 @ 60 Hz DE: GNOME 48.4 WM: Mutter (Wayland) WM Theme: Adwaita Theme: Adwaita [GTK2/3/4] Icons: Adwaita [GTK2/3/4] Font: Cantarell (11pt) [GTK2/3/4] Cursor: Adwaita (64px) Terminal: GNOME Terminal 3.56.2 Terminal Font: Monospace (11pt) CPU: 2 x AMD Ryzen 9 5950X (8) @ 3.39 GHz GPU: VMware SVGA II Adapter Memory: 1.48 GiB / 31.31 GiB (5%) Swap: 0 B / 32.00 GiB (0%) Disk (/): 5.28 GiB / 974.42 GiB (1%) - ext4 Local IP (ens33): 192.168.229.128/24 Locale: en_AU.UTF-8

Description:

You are correct about the file size. I am trying to isolate the threshold.

I am testing it files of size 3.99 MB (4,194,060 bytes) so around here is about the limit.

Here is the failure synario. Note I am using copy and paste not the drag and drop method. I realize now my problem description header was not entirely accurate :)

  1. Copy a file is 100 bytes - Works.
  2. Copy a file that is 3.99 MB (4,194,060 bytes) - Works.
  3. Copy a file that is 3.99 MB (4,194,061 bytes) - does not work.

Thanks

Ward

ward-horsfall avatar Oct 28 '25 03:10 ward-horsfall