On 19-Mar-09 08:38:40, Chris G wrote:
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:55:00PM -0000, Ted Harding wrote:
Hi folks (and apologies to any who may be affected by cross-posting).
I have VirtualBox installed on a Windows XP machine, and Debian Etch installed as a guest. The Linux Guest Additions have been installed, and generally seem to be doing their job.
However, the Shared Clipboard facility apparently does nothing. It is enabled as "Bidirectional" in the virtual machine. [...] If anyone has useful comments, I'd bevery grateful to receive them!
VirtualBox 1.5.0 (2007-08-31).
I'm running the other way around - Ubuntu 8.10 host and Windows XP guest. In addition I'm running a much newer VirtualBox, version 2.1.4. Among other things I'd recommend moving to a newer version of VirtualBox, there's *lots* of improvements and bug fixes. There's even a 2.2.x version in beta now so moving to 2.1.x is hardly pushing the limits.
Having said all that I too find that cut and paste between host and guest doesn't always work. I *have* found though that it depends how you copy text into the clipboard in the Linux host. If I double click to select text it doesn't work whereas if I use CTRL/C (in Firefox in particular) to copy text in the Linux host then it *does* work and can be pasted in the Windows guest.
On the other hand, for me, copy text in the XP guest and pasting in the Linux host seems to always work OK on my system.
-- Chris Green
Thanks, Chris. I'd been wondering about the Version issue! Now I am wondering about installing the updated VirtualBox on the XP host. The user manual does not seem to discuss upgrading VirtualBox on Windows, so the implication is that ugrading simply means installing the later version as if from scratch.
But the last thing I want is for that to break, and also kill the older version, leaving me Linux-less on that machine. Too much depends on it!
So can anyone confirm by experience that upgrading that way is safe? Or is there a better way?
With thanks, Ted.
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