[Solved] Copy / Paste from Windows Guest to Host

[andygee]

Copy and paste works for me from my host to my windows guest with the additions package. It does not work from the guest to the host, is this normal or is there something I'm missing to make it work.

Thanks,

Andy

[Perryg]

Moving to Windows 7 host

Look in the guest settings, general, advanced, make sure that the shared clipboard is set to bidirectional

[andygee]

Not sure why but it was already selected, I just changed it and changed it back and it's good now. Thanks,

Andy

[Perryg]

Dang Gremlins

Glad you have it working.

[andygee]

Well I say it's solved but it's really not. I have more information on when the problem occurs though. I'm running Windows 7 RTM as my host and XP as my guest. If I hibernate the machine and then come back and wake it, copy/paste will still work from Host to Guest but not Guest to Host. Any ideas, and yes I know, don't hibernate.

Andy

[Perryg]

When you hibernate the HOST and the guest is not hibernating it gets really touchy. Think of it like this. You are telling another PC to drop dead and stop working until I come back on line. Doesn't work in real life too well and this follows through to the virtual environment as well. Weird things can happen. For this to work you would need to suspend (pause) the guest and then hibernate, or hibernate the guest (close and save state) then the host. Of course this is just my opinion.

[andygee]

When you hibernate the HOST and the guest is not hibernating it gets really touchy. Think of it like this. You are telling another PC to drop dead and stop working until I come back on line. Doesn't work in real life too well and this follows through to the virtual environment as well. Weird things can happen. For this to work you would need to suspend (pause) the guest and then hibernate, or hibernate the guest (close and save state) then the host. Of course this is just my opinion.

Ok I'll give it a shot. I'm just going off of previous experience with vm workstation, it would let me get away with it and was ok, but I will give that a shot. I'll try shortly to restart that vm and see if it fixes it.

Andy