You can copy and paste between a virtual machine and your Mac.

You can copy and paste images and formatted text between a Windows or Linux virtual machine and your Mac. You can copy and paste text between a macOS virtual machine and your Mac. Copying and pasting files or folders between a macOS virtual machine and your Mac is not supported.

To use these shortcuts, make sure the Fusion preference Enable Key Mappings preference is selected.

1

In either the virtual machine or your Mac, select the text.

2

Use the Mac keyboard shortcut Command key symbol+C to copy the text, or Command key symbol+X to move the text.

3

Move the pointer to the new location.

4

Use the Mac keyboard shortcut Command key symbol+V to copy or move the text to the new location.