Copy and Paste Between Virtual Machines and Your Mac Using Keyboard Shortcuts

You can copy and paste between a 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.

Prerequisites

To use these shortcuts, make sure the Fusion preference Enable Key Mappings preference is selected.

Procedure

1. In either the virtual machine or your Mac, select the text.
2. Use the Mac keyboard shortcut +C to copy the text, or +X to move the text.
3. Move the pointer to the new location.
4. Use the Mac keyboard shortcut +V to copy or move the text to the new location.