Linux guest on Vmware ESXi, enabling cut and paste in Vmware Remote Console on Ubuntu desktop

Need to ensure that Open VM Tools is installed then reboot the guest OS.

sudo apt-get install open-vm-tools
sudo apt-get install open-vm-tools-desktop

The last line (often missed)

• Enables resizing of the guest display to match host console window or the VMware Remote Console Window for vSphere
• Enables text copy and paste operation between host and guest UI (either direction)
• Enables drag and drop operation between guest and host (either direction) for the VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion products (not supported on vSphere)

Note this depends on Ubuntu using X (gnome)

Also the following two lines need adding to the virtual machine configuration

isolation.tools.copy.disable = false
isolation.tools.paste.disable = false

Further details here,

Clipboard Copy and Paste does not work in vSphere Client 4.1 and later
https://kb.vmware.com/kb/1026437

VMware support for Open VM Tools (2073803)
https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2073803