Get/set guest clipboard

[Pernat1y]

Is it somehow possible to get/set clipboard in guest OS without altering host's clipboard?
If no, it will be nice to have such a feature.

[scottgus1]

The vast majority of the time you can see if Virtualbox does something by searching the PDF of the manual found in your Virtualbox installation folder.

The 6.1.4 manual does not seem to have a function to set the guest clipboard to a determined value without altering the host clipboard. This appears to be a roll-your-own situation. See the 'VBoxManage getextradata/setextradata' commands, and write host and guest scripts to pass strings. Some scripting languages can also alter the clipboard.

You can enter an Enhancement Request in the Bugtracker, but if the request happens to not coincide with the Oracle paying customers' needs or wants, then the request is likely not going to be implemented for some time, if ever. User-contributed code is considered and has been used, though.

[Pernat1y]

Got it. Thanks.