[Sugar-devel] Unable to use shared clipboard in sugar live vm.

[Vipul Gupta]

Hey Shivam,

Your question is about VirtualBox and Linux in general, not Sugar.
> The article below shows some of the complexity of what you are asking
> about.
>
> https://superuser.com/questions/1318231/why-doesnt-clipboard-sharing-work-with-ubuntu-18-04-lts-inside-virtualbox-5-1-2
>

Was reading through the email list, and saw this. James is indeed correct,
it seems more about VB and Linux with clipboard sharing being definitely a
problem some folks face when working with VB. It didn't work the last time
I tried it with VB + Ubuntu Server. I instead jumped on to having Shared
folders between my host and virtual system using VB's shared folders guest
additions approach. Not sure how much this helps you, but I documented how
it worked out for me. Here you go,

https://mixstersite.wordpress.com/2020/05/14/solved-virtualbox-shared-folders-guest-additions-not-working-linux/

It's a bit raw, I scribbled the blog out when I was able to solve the
problem but hope it helps.

Best,
Vipul | @vipulgupta2048 <https://twitter.com/vipulgupta2048>



On Sun, May 9, 2021 at 1:31 PM James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:

> It's not really something I do.  It is easier to set up an SSH server
> and use an SSH client to copy any text from the system, using the
> script(1) command, a shared screen(1), or log files.
>
> I don't know what you did wrong, sorry.  Unless you've kept detailed
> notes, there's no way to guess.
>
> However, you haven't shown that you have installed the VirtualBox
> X11 guest utilities package on the Debian Sugar Live Build VM.
>
> Sugar Live Build does not have VirtualBox packages preloaded.
>
> You could install the Sugar Live Build to a virtual disk, then
> install the Debian package virtualbox-guest-x11, then restart Sugar.
>
> Or, you could install the Debian package
> virtualbox-guest-additions-iso build-essential dkms and your kernel
> headers, and then build the kernel module provided on the ISO.
>
>
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> On Sun, May 09, 2021 at 10:32:42AM +0530, Shivam Rai wrote:
> > I have installed virtualbox extension pack on virtual box and i
> confirmed it on
> > my vm by checking it in extensions option.
> > Is there anything I am supposed to do?
> > Or I did something wrong while setting the vm?
> >
> > On Tue, May 4, 2021, 3:06 PM James Cameron <[1]quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> >
> >     I agree.
> >
> >     On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 12:19:42PM +0300, [2]
> srevinsaju at sugarlabs.org
> >     wrote:
> >     > Its likely that you haven't installed Virtual Box Extension pack
> on the
> >     Debian
> >     > Sugar Live Build.
> >     >
> >     >
> >     > On Tuesday, May 4, 2021 11:51:30 AM +03 Shivam Rai wrote:
> >     > > Even after enabling bidirectional clipboard it doesnt work in
> >     > > sugarlivebuild vm.
> >     > > Have tried some change in settings but it didnt work.
> >     > > Although with the same settings there is no copy paste issue in
> other
> >     vm's
> >     > > i am using.
> >     > > I think its something from my side.
> >     > > What can be done to sort this out?
> >     > >
> >     >
> >     >
> >     >
> >     >
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> >     James Cameron
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> >
> > References:
> >
> > [1] mailto:quozl at laptop.org
> > [2] mailto:srevinsaju at sugarlabs.org
> > [3] mailto:Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> > [4] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
> > [5] https://quozl.linux.org.au/
> > [6] mailto:Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> > [7] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
>
>
>
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