Unable to copy/paste or drag/drop from host machine to Kali. I originally had 2017.3 32-bit VM from this link: https://www.offensive-security.com/kali-linux-vm-vmware-virtualbox-hyperv-image-download/ and dist upgraded to 2018.1.

The first two commands check that vmblock is working right out of the box. Third command is to grab the PID of the process to kill in command four. Running command five creates PID 1580 and displays the Gtk-WARNING message. At this point copy/paste & drag/drop now works

root# ls /var/run/vmblock-fuse
blockdir dev

root# ps aux | grep vmware-vmblock-fuse
root 398 0.0 0.0 64668 388 ? Ssl 14:01 0:00 vmware-vmblock-fuse -o subtype=vmware-vmblock,default_permissions,allow_other /var/run/vmblock-fuse
root 1599 0.0 0.0 4816 872 pts/5 S+ 14:09 0:00 grep vmware-vmblock-fuse

root# ps aux | grep vmtoolsd
root 270 0.0 0.2 44328 9652 ? Ss 14:01 0:00 /usr/bin/vmtoolsd
root 1274 0.2 0.7 97352 30476 tty2 Sl+ 14:01 0:00 /usr/bin/vmtoolsd -n vmusr --blockFd 3
root 1575 0.0 0.0 4816 872 pts/5 S+ 14:07 0:00 grep vmtoolsd

root# kill 1274

root# /usr/bin/vmware-user-suid-wrapper
root#
(vmware-user:1580): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_disable_setlocale() must be called before gtk_init()

root# ps aux | grep vmtoolsd
root 270 0.0 0.2 44328 9652 ? Ss 14:01 0:00 /usr/bin/vmtoolsd
root 1580 1.6 0.7 97348 30620 pts/6 Sl 14:08 0:00 /usr/bin/vmtoolsd -n vmusr --blockFd 3
root 1584 0.0 0.0 4816 876 pts/5 S+ 14:08 0:00 grep vmtoolsd