#1 2017-02-04 12:52:24

Steve

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Shared clipboard with Virtualbox

Can someone please point me in the right direction on this. Ive enabled bidirectional for shared clipboard and drag and drop but no love.

Im pretty sure there needs to be a command enabled within the virtualbox guest os.

I have a Debian unstable xfce setup, has the virtualbox guest additions, utils and all working nicely in that respect, just cant get the shared clipboard working.

Ive googled this and not found anything that stands out, should work.

Is it a case of having an older unsupported virtualbox build on the host?

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: Shared clipboard with Virtualbox

Is this with a Windows host?

How exactly did you install the guest additions?

This guide shows the correct method:

https://virtualboxes.org/doc/installing … on-debian/

Rumour has it that the clipboard only works *to* the Debian host but I only ever use QEMU/KVM so I can't comment directly.

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Steve

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Re: Shared clipboard with Virtualbox

Im using Bunsenlabs as the host.

Sorry i was getting my guest additions mixed up with the extension packs from the virtualbox website.

Thankyou for the link Hoas, that is probably what i am missing.

I really should try QEMU/KVM sometime.

Cheers
Steve

paxmark1

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Re: Shared clipboard with Virtualbox

And for the change to Debian 9  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … bug=794466

https://packages.debian.org/sid/virtualbox    Note - no option for Stretch install in testing.

Steve

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Re: Shared clipboard with Virtualbox

Time to move over to Qemu Kvm then, thanks paxmark1.

I just had my first try of it this morning, i was able to get the Debian 9 testing nettinstall iso working.

I will have to do a full install in qemu and see how i go. Just want to be able to copy over some files from my host machine to the guest.

johnraff

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Re: Shared clipboard with Virtualbox

For Stretch hosts, there is still the option of getting virtualbox directly from the oracle repo, if you can live with that.
Debian wiki: https://wiki.debian.org/VirtualBox#Debi … Stretch.22

btw for the Guest Additions, I found in the past that dkms was also needed in order to build the kernel headers, so I always install that before running VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

The clipboard (copy/paste text) works in both directions for me, but drag and drop does not - you can get round that by going via a shared folder.

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Steve

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Re: Shared clipboard with Virtualbox

The clipboard (copy/paste text) works in both directions for me, but drag and drop does not - you can get round that by going via a shared folder.

Shared folders staring me straight in the face too! Thanks John, that would be all i need and it works.