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I am running Parallels build 4.0.3384 (the latest at the time of writing), on Mac OS X 10.5.7, with Windows 7 RC1 as my VM
I am unable to copy and paste from the host to the VM and vice versa. This is really annoying, any ideas?
Bruce McLeod
Posted 2009-07-22T09:25:32.320
Reputation: 5 490
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Ok I just sorted this out. I shut the machine, then went configure > Features > Services
Then unchecked Share clipboard, then ok. Closed parallels so the machine configuration saved to disk.
Opened parallels went back and re-selected Share clipboard then fired up the machine and ... ta da ... fixed.
Update:
Well no it wasn't fixed as the problem came back, however upgrading to Beta5 has solved it 100%
Bruce McLeod
Posted 2009-07-22T09:25:32.320
Reputation: 5 490
this worked on build 7.0.15052 It's funny that these clowns haven't fixed this same bug yet eh? lol – thatjuan – 2011-12-05T05:23:11.757
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I found that if you have .NET 3.5 installed on the Windows VM, it will prevent copy/paste from working. Remove 3.5 (2.0, 3.0 seem fine) and it should fix it. At least that's my experience.
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Sometimes reinstalling "Parallels Tools" helps.
Select "Virtual Machine - Reinstall parallels tools" in the menu, while your VM is running.
Serge Shultz
Posted 2009-07-22T09:25:32.320
Reputation: 161
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For those who are having issues with ClipBoard Copy/Paste between Windows and Mac OS X, my problem was that I enabled "Isolate Mac from Windows" option under Security in Configure/Options tab.
Disabling that and rebooting the guest OS seems to have taken care of that problem.
Which copy/paste methods have you tried using? Just wondering if you found that right-click copy/paste worked but keyboard ctrl-c then apple-v (etc) didn't...? – robsoft – 2009-07-22T11:08:39.733
All of them ... :-) – Bruce McLeod – 2009-07-22T13:36:27.463
[Chealion, related to the tag cleanup, maybe you're interested in this: http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6398/please-could-we-combine-the-osx-and-macosx-tags] – Jonik – 2009-07-22T20:44:03.797