Moving and Copying Files and Text Between Virtual Machines and Your Mac

You can drag files and folders to move and copy them between your virtual machines and your Mac. You can move text by copying and pasting or cutting and pasting.

You can also drag images between Windows applications and Mac applications. You can drag Outlook attachments from a Windows virtual machine to your Mac. You can drag files in a virtual machine directly onto Mac applications. You can also drag and drop text, files or folders between a macOS virtual machine and your Mac.

You can copy and paste images and formatted text between a Windows or Linux virtual machine and your Mac. You can copy and paste text between a macOS virtual machine and your Mac. Copying and pasting files or folders between a macOS virtual machine and your Mac is not supported.

These features require VMware Tools.