Indeed; WinXP guest on a linux host sometimes failed to share the clipboard too. I just re-installed the guest-additions to temporarily solve the problem....
2012/3/15 Mark Cranness <[email protected]>: > On 2 March 2012 13:45, Mark Cranness <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 1 March 2012 06:41, Dennis Van Eron <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I am unable to paste from the Host to the guests. >> >> I've had a similar problem since 3.x.x: At times paste between Windows >> host and Windows guest will stop working (either way). >> >> Other symptoms: I use a command-line program pclip.exe which print the >> contents of the clipboard to the console. It will fail with an error >> message (don't recall what, sorry) while the copy/paste is broken. >> pclip.exe: http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ > > The pclip error message was not much help, it is: > > pclip: Error opening clipboard! > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning > Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing > also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. > http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ > _______________________________________________ > VBox-users-community mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
