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Ubuntu crash when pasting files from VMware

It’s been a while since I last wrote a post but it does feel good so I’m expecting to pick up blogging in a more regular cadence soon!

This one is a quicky though, as I had an annoying issue with Ubuntu 22.04 VM’s running on VMware workstation.

Every time I attempted to paste a (larger) file from the host it would crash Ubuntu’s File Explorer (Nautilus):

Nautilus (Ubuntu's File Explorer) crashes when pasting a file from a VMware host

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Fortunately I found a workaround:

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  • Filed under: Linux, Ubuntu, VMWare
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    I didn’t get it to work correctly right away though and during troubleshooting I wanted to know where the VDA is storing it’s settings.

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    I needed to login as root on a Linux based virtual appliance to do some troubleshooting. In my case the appliance was running Suse Linux Enterprise.

    I booted the VA using the Ubuntu Live CD and opened a Terminal. Then I used the cfdisk tool (sudo cfdisk /dev/sda) to view the partitions:

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    At the time of writing Ubuntu 10.10 was the Latest version so I used that one.

    Create a new Virtual Machine and use the iso as install media, I am using VMWare Workstation and it recognises Ubuntu and performs an “easy install”:

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