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 <vipulgupta2...@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 <qu...@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]qu...@laptop.org> wrote: >> > >> > I agree. >> > >> > On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 12:19:42PM +0300, [2] >> srevins...@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? >> > > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > Sugar-devel mailing list >> > > [3]Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org >> > > [4]http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >> > >> > -- >> > James Cameron >> > [5]https://quozl.linux.org.au/ >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Sugar-devel mailing list >> > [6]Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org >> > [7]http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >> > >> > References: >> > >> > [1] mailto:qu...@laptop.org >> > [2] mailto:srevins...@sugarlabs.org >> > [3] mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org >> > [4] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >> > [5] https://quozl.linux.org.au/ >> > [6] mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org >> > [7] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >> >> >> >> -- >> James Cameron >> https://quozl.linux.org.au/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar-devel mailing list >> Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >> >
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