If your VMWare installation and the guest OS meet the requirement, you can enable the Copy & Paste feature that works using the keyboard shortcuts Ctrl + C and Ctrl ...

I have this same problem using VMWare Server and trying to copy anything be it via UNC \\mymachine\c$ or copying via FTP or SCP (in Fedora 8). It didn't seem to impact my HTTP transfers, say by ...

New edition of VMware-specific software offers faster backup and recovery of directories, server states and data, using Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service VMware Consolidated Backup Virtualization ...