I am having an issue that I am guessing is something I am doing wrong, but I can’t figure it out. I am trying to simply copy text from one virtual machine into another. I am using VMWare Workstation running on opensuse 15.4 , and the guest that is receiving the text is also opensuse 15.4. If the guest is Windows, the paste works just fine. Now if I copy text out of a Windows VM, I can paste it into my host OS just fine. What am I missing or doing wrong?
Make sure you’ve got the guest tools installed in the guest.
open-vm-tools-12.2.0-150300.29.1.x86_64
This is what’s installed in my 15.5 VMware guest (copied and pasted from the guest to this post, in Chrome on my host). 
For me, I had to install spice-vdagent on both machines and have it running on both machines.
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First off, apparently I must have updated my VM because I am also running 15.5…
With that, I have this:
open-vm-tools-12.2.0-150300.29.1.x86_64
open-vm-tools-desktop-12.2.0-150300.29.1.x86_64
That may be an alternative way of doing it - I don’t have spice-vdagent installed on either system here.
In the VM configuration, also make sure you have copy/paste enabled in the “Guest isolation” configuration:
It would appear that I do have those options enabled, and I can confirm this because if I run any desktop but KDE, the pasting works just fine. With that, I am guessing this is some type of KDE bug somehow.
Do you use KDE with Wayland or X11?
Initially I noticed the problem when using Wayland so I subsequently switched to X11 where the problem still exists.
One of the challenges I’ve seen is that there are different copy/paste buffers that might be used - so it may just be a matter of switching how you’re pasting. I don’t use KDE myself, so I can’t advise as to the different options, but I have seen in other remote desktop environments that I’ve used that where CTRL+V doesn’t work, sometimes a middle click does (for example).
I remember reading up some about just what you were talking about so I have been using the applications menu options (plus tried keystroke shortcuts to verify the same results) to perform the pasting action. It must be something with KDE running as a guest because all other DE environments don’t exhibit this issue.
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