Copy-n-Paste fails, OS X Host

[polson]

Hi! I'm not sure how best to debug this, so I'll write what I know. It's not much.

- OS X 10.11.5 host, Ubuntu 16.04 guest
- VirtualBox 5.1 b3 host and guest, with extension pack
- bidirectional copy-n-paste works, initially
- Eventually it does not work, and restarting guest makes it work again (until it stops working)

Please help me dig into this to decipher the problem.

[polson]

An update:
I learned that after awhile, clipboard behavior changes from "bidirectional" to "host-to-guest", but "guest-to-host" behavior stops working despite it always being set to "bidirectional".

In other words, initially bidirectional works fine, but after X minutes/actions/??? in the VM, it behaves like only "host-to-guest" is allowed. X is not yet fully defined. I tried, and am trying. Sorry.

Also, in the past I encountered different clipboard related bug and ended up executing the likes of this to fix it:

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#/usr/bin/env bash
killall -9 /usr/bin/VBoxClient
VBoxClient-all

However, that does not help here. Perhaps there's something else I can try?

[polson]

Despite appreciating the speed increase, I'm giving up on 5.1 for now. Basic clipboard functionality is required for my work flow. So, I'm unable to test this now.