本人使用的是vmware 12 player， 虚拟机装的是ubuntu14.04, 主机是win10， 重新装过vm Tools后， 在主机复制内容，在虚拟机不能粘贴了，搞得很蛋疼，后来看到此种方法解决了。Copy/paste and drag&drop not working in vmware machine with Ubuntu

I had the same problem and found that this can be fixed by executing the following commands in Ubuntu :

1. sudo apt-get autoremove open-vm-tools

2. Install VMware Tools by following the usual method (Virtual Machine --> Reinstall VMWare Tools)

3. Reboot the VM

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

5. Reboot the VM, after the reboot copy/paste and drag/drop will work!