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

[Shivam Rai]

Thanx to you all for suggesting these many alternatives. I tried  and most
of them worked. The simplest among them I  found , was installing
vboxguest-addition, which  provide  couple of good easy options to share
data between host and guest vm and ofcourse enhanced vm interface.

Regards,
Shivam.

On Sun, May 9, 2021, 5:27 PM Vipul Gupta <vipulgupta2048 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>> > 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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