On 02/13/2013 08:25 AM, Michael Thayer wrote:
> 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
[mlapier@mushroom ~]$ VBOX_RELEASE_LOG_DEST=file=/tmp/clipboard.log
[mlapier@mushroom ~]$ VBOX_RELEASE_LOG=+all.e.l.f VBoxClient -d --clipboard
bash: VBoxClient: command not found
[mlapier@mushroom ~]$
I suppose the question here is, Where can I get that VBoxClient command
that bash seems unable to find?
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