vbox 2.0.4 crashes clipboard on windows host

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trmentry
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Joined: 6. Jul 2007, 14:47

vbox 2.0.4 crashes clipboard on windows host

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Host: Windows XP Pro
Guest: Ubuntu 8.10

Clipboard is set to bidirectional, and vbox tools are install into guest.

I've running in seamless mode for a day or so and it's been great. Clipboard was working fine copy between host <> guest.

However all of a sudden, my clipboard just stops working. I can't copy between host <> guest in either direction.

And the clipboard on the host is borked completely. Applications on the host give the following:

Cannot Open Clipboard

This is trying to copy between apps on host (guest not involved).

I shutdown the guest (it hangs and have to force the virtualbox.exe process to close).

Once the vbox process is gone, clipboard is restored on host. Boot guest back up, and bidirectional works fine.

Anyone have any ideas?
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