Hello Fernando, On 12/02/13 15:36, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Michael Thayer > <michael.tha...@oracle.com> wrote: >> The other is that the Windows XP clipboard viewer mechanism (actually it >> goes back to the co-operative multi-tasking Windows 3.1, which is the >> problem, as any unco-operative application can break it) is rather >> unreliable > > Thanks for your response Michael. > > Do I infer, as per your response, that what is finicky is the XP > clipboard, but that things were somewhat fixed in Win7?? Or does win7 > share the same problem?. No, as we are still using the Windows XP APIs, even on Windows 7. So the problem is still there.
> I' d be more than happy to try your suggestion, but sadly my netbook > hard drive took a dive and I lost both my XP SP3 system and the Ubuntu > VM I had setup wiithin it. Since my last backup was a couple months > old, all is gone for good. I am right now using a Fedora Linux LiveCD > booted off a pen drive. > > I will, however, attempt to reinstall XP SP3 once I get a new hard > drive, as it worked much better than Win7 on a single-core Atom CPU > with 2Gigs of system RAM. Still, as one of the list moderators it can't hurt if you know these things - I'm surprised they don't come up more often. And I double checked, and the command to start the clipboard service in a Linux (or Solaris) guest with logging, adjust the file name as needed, is: $ VBOX_RELEASE_LOG_DEST=file=/tmp/clipboard.log VBOX_RELEASE_LOG=+all.e.l.f VBoxClient -d --clipboard > FC Regards, Michael -- ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG Michael Thayer Werkstrasse 24 VirtualBox engineering 71384 Weinstadt, Germany mailto:michael.tha...@oracle.com Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 München Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Kunz Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. Hertogswetering 163/167, 3543 AS Utrecht, Niederlande Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 Geschäftsführer: Alexander van der Ven, Astrid Kepper, Val Maher ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
