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VMware GSX Server Administration Guide
think about which of the two identical pointers moves when you move your
mouse.
• Grab when cursor enters window — the mouse pointer becomes the mouse
pointer of your guest operating system when the mouse pointer enters the
virtual machine console window. This option does not apply when the virtual
machine is in full screen mode.
• Enable copy and paste to and from virtual machine — use this option for
copying and pasting text between the host and the virtual machine and among
virtual machines. The clipboards of the two operating systems communicate
with each other. When the mouse pointer of your guest operating system exits
the console window, the contents of the guest operating system clipboard are
copied into the host operating system clipboard. Similarly, each time the mouse
pointer of your host operating system is grabbed by the console window, the
contents of the host operating system clipboard are copied into the guest
operating system clipboard.
Note: At this time, you cannot copy and paste between Red Hat Linux 7.0
through 7.3 and Windows 2000. It does not matter which operating system is
the guest and which is the host.
Note: The best way to understand the cursor options is to play with them for a while.
They describe how the mouse pointer should behave when you are in windowed
mode; that is, the virtual machine is in a console window, not in full screen mode, and
you can see your host operating system's desktop.
Setting Hot Key Preferences
Use the Hot Key tab to change which combination of keys (the Ctrl, Alt and Shift keys
in combination with other keys) are passed to the guest operating system or are
intercepted by GSX Server.