I haven't complained because it's only a minor nuisance, but yeah that happens to me too. In particular, copy from my Windows XP guest will not work. I can copy from the Ubuntu host and paste to the XP guest, but a copy on the guest only copies to the guest's clipboard.
> 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
