[Solved] Clipboard and System Time issues

[darreln]

I am running latest virtualbox version on MacOS Sierra (10.12.4) ,with the guest OS being WIndows10 64bit. I have two issues I am unable to figure out.

1) I cannot get the shared clipboard to work across the OS'. I tried bidirectional and Host to Guest, but there's nothing working. Is there additional software that I need to install on the guest OS to make this work? No matter what setting I try, it won't work.

2) Guest OS time/date. When the guest OS is suspended and then re-activated, the time/date do not update, even though the guest OS is set to automatically set date/time and time zone. I have to reboot the guest OS to get the correct time/date.

Any help or direction on these issues will be appreciated.

thanks,
darreln

[socratis]

It sounds like the Guest Additions are not installed in the guest. But I won't know for sure until I see the log:

• Follow a "start the VM from cold-boot"/"observe error"/"shutdown the VM" cycle.
• With the VM shut down completely (not paused or saved), right-click on the VM in the VirtualBox Manager and select "Show Log".
• Save only the first "VBox.log", ZIP it and attach it to your response (see the "Upload attachment" tab below the reply form).

[darreln]

thank you so much. Here is the log.

[darreln]

It sounds like the Guest Additions are not installed in the guest. But I won't know for sure until I see the log:

• Follow a "start the VM from cold-boot"/"observe error"/"shutdown the VM" cycle.
• With the VM shut down completely (not paused or saved), right-click on the VM in the VirtualBox Manager and select "Show Log".
• Save only the first "VBox.log", ZIP it and attach it to your response (see the "Upload attachment" tab below the reply form).

I am pretty sure that I did not install the guest additions! This is the piece I was looking for. I just went to the manual and read up on how to install them. It is now working, thank you so much for the direction!

[socratis]

OK, I didn't even have to read the logs, and you read the manual, and you solved it! Nice!
Marking as [Solved].

[Bharat24]

I am having the same issue where my VM goes out of sync. I have to go and manually sync.i know I have Guest Additions installed and I can see the service is running on my Win10 VM. Am I missing something? Do I need to disable the Windows Time or do I need it running along with the VBox Service?

Bharat...

[socratis]

Please do not hijack other threads, when they are clearly not the same problem (lack of Guest Additions) and are already marked as "Solved". Please open a new thread and post a VM log. And full details please, for example are you on an OSX host?

Please do not answer in this thread.