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Hmmm, that depends on the virtualisation solution being used.

If someone's using (say) VMware Workstation or Fusion, if they've loaded the VMware tools into the VM it can share the clipboard and be configured with access to the hosts filesystem (at defined points).



If you set it up that way it will. If you are doing this intentionally then just don't set it up that way.




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