=========================================================================== $NetBSD: MESSAGE.x11,v 1.1 2016/11/21 00:14:16 pho Exp $ You need to mount the vmblock file system in order to enable the clipboard synchronization and drag and drop support: # mkdir /var/run/vmblock-fuse # vmware-vmblock-fuse /var/run/vmblock-fuse Then start vmware-user-suid-wrapper in your .xinitrc: % vmware-user-suid-wrapper ===========================================================================