Clipboard between guest and host

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Allen B
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Clipboard between guest and host

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I have moved from Debian 10 to 11. I could copy from the guest and paste in the host before the change, but now this doesn't work.
Jeff23
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Re: Clipboard between guest and host

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I had the same problem with Linux Mint 20.2. After updates of the kernel and update to VB 6.1.26_Ubuntu r145957 the clipboard worked again in both directions.
scottgus1
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Re: Clipboard between guest and host

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Guest Additions (and prerequisites) are required for shared clipboard. Also, only X clipboard is compatible with Virtualbox Shared Clipboard, Wayland clipboard is not compatible yet.
See https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html and https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch02. ... nux-prereq
sac123
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Re: Clipboard between guest and host

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scottgus1 wrote:Guest Additions (and prerequisites) are required for shared clipboard. Also, only X clipboard is compatible with Virtualbox Shared Clipboard, Wayland clipboard is not compatible yet.
See https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html and https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch02. ... nux-prereq
Sry to reopen this, but the 2 links don't contain any info for wayland clipboard. This was working even in some older v6.x versions of VB. Is there any bug / regression or any official info on this one?
scottgus1
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Re: Clipboard between guest and host

Post by scottgus1 »

Neither of those links discuss Wayland's clipboard because they're discussing installing Guest Additions.

Once Guest Additions are installed, then shared clipboard will work (may, on Wayland).

Please start a new topic if your Wayland system does not have working shared clipboard, and we'll see what can be done.
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