Cannot copy and paste between Hyper-V and windows 11

Lara Varner 6 Reputation points
2022-04-10T17:35:31.137+00:00

I cannot copy and paste (not text, not file) anything between Hyper-V Window 11 Pro
I have made sure that the Guest Services was checking in the VM settings and that Use enhanced session mode is check in Hyper-V Settings.

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  1. Dave Patrick 426K Reputation points MVP
    2022-04-10T17:43:08.427+00:00

    That's normal and expected behavior for a console session. Try using an RDP session instead.

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  2. Limitless Technology 43,916 Reputation points
    2022-04-12T08:11:18.373+00:00

    Hello
    ,
    Thank you for your question and reaching out.
    Well
    Check This
    Here is a quick and easy way to get this work efficiently:

    If you're running the VM, turn it off first.
    find your virtual hard disk image file .vhd of your VM
    Right click on this file and select mount
    This will give "System Reserved" and "Local Disk" drives.
    Open the "Local Disk" drive (this is the OS drive on VM)
    Go there and paste you files.
    Finally unmount or eject one of the drivers
    Run the VM and go the c:\ drive there and you will find your files.

    It can be done via Powershell.

    First, create a session with New-PSSession from the HOST:

    $s = New-PSSession -VMName <VMName> -Credential (Get-Credential)
    Then, from the HOST, copy the file via Copy-Item using the session:

    Copy-Item -ToSession $s -Path C:\host_path\data.txt -Destination C:\guest_path\
    Also
    This is possible in Hyper-V Post windows server 2012 R2.

    This functionality is known as "Enhanced Session Mode" in windows server 2012 R2.

    Once you enable Enhance session mode in the Hyper-V setting for the Server you need to just start the VM and select "Connect" once prompted.

    Now you will be able to copy paste files and folders without having RDP of the server

    And see if it helps,

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