On Thursday 08 March 2012 20:47:39 Stéphane Charette wrote: > I saw this come across my twitter stream today and wondered if it was real: > > Virtualbox is accidentally sharing clipboards between people accessing VBs > > > on the same host machine. Good for some "WTF?" CTRL+V moments. > > Is this real? There would be some serious security implications for us if > this is actually the case.
Any more information about which host and which guest? VirtualBox is a user-space application and therefore can only access resources available to the user which started the VM. And the clipboard is no exception from that rule. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Senior Manager Software Development Desktop Virtualization, VirtualBox ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG | Werkstr. 24 | 71384 Weinstadt, Germany Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 München Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. Hertogswetering 163/167, 3543 AS Utrecht, Niederlande Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Kunz, Marcel van de Molen, Alexander van der Ven
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