What have you tried: Fresh Install Kali 2025.1a as a VM in VMWare Workstation 17 Pro
What is the error: Installation was successful. But, Drag & drop between Windows Host and Kali VM does not seem to be working. If I do a Dist-Upgrade from Kali 2024-4 on the same VMware Workstation 17 Pro (Drag & Drop was working on 2024-4) the Drag & drop works even after the Dist-Upgrade.
What device is this on:Lenovo ThinkPad P1 running Windows 11 Pro 24H2
Thank you. I tried the steps you have given and I can say, it does not work. First of all, Re-Install VMWare Tools is greyed out under the new Kali VM. During the install I noticed that as part of the installation, VMWare tools being installed. This is why I am trying to get help.
I tried various flavors (Kali everything/Kali Installer/ Kali Purple) of Kali and the result is the same.
you have to be in the kali vm and do a full shutdown of kali before you can configure machine settings in vmware to enable drag and drop support. If you never âfully shut downâ a guest OS it will never update the settings to allow it.
Quite shockingly I found the solution. To copy file from host to kali. We can just CTRL+C and CTRL+V instead of drag and drop. Try it for VMware. Maybe work.