Copy paste not working in VB 7.0.10

[hsweeten]

I recently updated to VB 7.0.10 and am having the same problem with a really old virtual machine that worked fine with previous versions of VB.

I looked at the links above and still cannot get the copy/paste to work.

Attached is my vbox.log.

Thanks

[scottgus1]

Side point, this is bad:

00:00:06.179821 Host path 'C:\', map name 'C_DRIVE', writable, automount=true, automntpnt=, create_symlinks=false, missing=false

It's extremely dangerous to give the VM complete write access to the whole host drive.

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Guest Additions 7.0.10 matching host Virtualbox are installed, good.

Did you attempt to use the shared clipboard during this run of the VM? I don't see any such attempt in the log. If you did, what were you trying to copy/paste?

[hsweeten]

This VM is ancient. It's a CentOS 6.6 system with a old PowerPC cross compiler. I know the whole C:\ drive is available.

I tried to just copy some output from 'git -log' in a terminal to paste it into a changelog on my Windows Host.

Instead of getting the copy from the VM I get the last copy that I did on my host.

[scottgus1]

Thanks for the info. There are some unusual messages in the VM:

00:00:29.461034 VMMDev: Guest Log: 15:40:29.095501 vminfo Error: Unable to connect to system D-Bus (1/3): D-Bus not installed
...
00:00:45.250730 vmsvgaR3UpdateScreen: screen 0 (939,1920) 20x-1911: Invalid height and/or width supplied.
00:00:45.250733 ASSERT_GUEST_LOGREL D:\tinderbox\win-7.0\src\VBox\Devices\Graphics\DevVGA-SVGA.cpp(1719) int __cdecl vmsvgaR3UpdateScreen(struct VGASTATER3 *,struct VMSVGASCREENOBJECT *,int,int,int,int): w > 0 && h > 0
...

I don't know if these are related to clipboard usage. A forum guru will have to weigh in.

[fth0]

Those messages are related to updating the guest's screen content on the hosts display. The example you picked would update a rectangle at x=939, y=1920, w=20, h=-1911. The unexpected negative height triggers the log messages.

I don't see any direct connection to copy & past problems, but who knows. I'd suggest to create a ticket in the Bugtracker.