VMware Player 12 option "guest isolation" missing

vmware isolation
saesch_coder picture saesch_coder · Mar 24, 2017 · Viewed 14.9k times · Source

I have a host (Windows 10) running VMware Player 12.5.4. I created a VM Guest (Windows 7) and also installed the VMware Tools on that. However the option "guest isolation" is not showing up in the VM preferences. Drag and Drop works but I want to disable that feature. Reinstalling the VMware Tools didn't help.

Could it be that "guest isolation" is a Pro feature only? Or did it get removed completely out of the product?

Answer

codem picture codem · May 7, 2017

I add these to my *.vmx files to get to the bios and enable copy-paste:

isolation.tools.copy.disable = "FALSE"
isolation.tools.paste.disable = "FALSE"
bios.bootDelay = "2000"

You can try changing FALSE to TRUE and see if that disables copy-paste.

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