VMware player and XP

[bishopsgarthstockton]

Hi gang

Happy new year

right this probably cannot be done but here we go.

i currently have windows XP running on vmware player. It works fine but the problem i have is, i would like to take a screen shot in the vmware player and then switch to the host machine (XP pro SP2) to paste the screen shot in to MS Word or MS Paint.

I have installed the VMware tools which has allowed me to drag files and folders from the vmware player to the host machine. i can however copy text and paste in to MS Word on the host machine.

hope that makes sense. so what i need to do is take a screen shot of something in vmware player and switch to the host machine to paste in to ms word.

at the moment i could just save the image and then drag across to the host but that will take to long.

cheers :?

[Geoff]

FRAPS.

http://www.fraps.com/

[plexer]

What is FRAPS Geoff as our estemed LEa have denied me access to the domain?

Thanks,

Ben

[Geoff]

Screen shot/video grabber. It's designed for games (because they grab exclusive access of the video card and/or draw directly to the video buffer).

Funnily enough, this is exactly what VMware does too.

[bishopsgarthstockton]

Unfortunately that did not work

[bishopsgarthstockton]

apparently vmware player should allow me to do a screen capture and paste in to ms word on the host machine. no in fo on the vmware forum to sugest a fix to the problem.

[Ric_]

VM -> Capture Screen on workstation.... I haven't got player running at the moment.