Not the first rodeo, huh? Well, I followed the board's advice and searched through ALL of the 'clipboard,' posts. And, I came upon something as I was waiting for the system to shutdown prior to zipping up the log file. A little gem that was inside my own logs all the time:
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00:08:10.351919 Shared Clipboard: X11 DISPLAY variable not set -- disabling clipboard sharing
All the time. Months. Years. It's been there... staring at me.
Of course, a quick search and this was most likely due to the fact that I was using the VM in
detachable or
headless which precluded use of the clipboard. These are my preferred starts, and the VM in question had some shortcuts created. The one that got used the most looks like this:
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/usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBoxVM --comment "Win10" --startvm "{02ebd2ad-2527-4227-900b-771edeb55aea}"
This doesn't seem to launch in
detached/
headless...? But, when I used the Oracle Virtualbox Manager and launched with a
Normal Start, the clipboard worked fine. Is it possible my shortcut has betrayed me?
Again, back to the log:
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00:00:00.020081 Executable: /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxHeadless
It seems that while the shortcut on the desktop seemed innocent enough, what about from the mintMenu?
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/usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBoxVM --comment "jung-win10" --startvm "{02ebd2ad-2527-4227-900b-771edeb55aea}" --separate
There it is. Busted. It's my own fault. Nothing like a little separate parameter to ruin years and years of CTRL-C and CTRL-V attempts. I must have deserved this. Appreciate your quick response - hoping to dig myself out of this embarrassing hole into which I must now crawl.
LET THIS SERVE AS A REMINDER FOLKS... ALWAYS READ THE BOARD FIRST BEFORE YOU POST AND FOR PETE'S SAKES, READ YOUR LOGS.