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"Copy and paste" feature across guest and host

DISCUSSION Tomasz Chmielewski 3 participants 3 messages May 27, 2010 KVM

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Just installed Fedora13 as guest on KVM. However there is no cross-platform "copy and paste" feature. I trust I have setup this feature on other guest sometime before. Unfortunately I can't the relevant document. Could you please shed me some light. Pointer would be appreciated. TIA

Did you try;

# modprobe virtio-copypaste

?

Seriously, qemu does not make it easy (well, its GUI does not make most things easy) and you'll need a tool which synchronizes the clipboard between two machines (google for "qemu copy paste"?).

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Just installed Fedora13 as guest on KVM. However there is no cross-platform "copy and paste" feature. I trust I have setup this feature on other guest sometime before. Unfortunately I can't the relevant document. Could you please shed me some light. Pointer would be appreciated. TIA

Did you try;

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# modprobe virtio-copypaste

?

Seriously, qemu does not make it easy (well, its GUI does not make most things easy) and you'll need a tool which synchronizes the clipboard between two machines (google for "qemu copy paste"?).

There is no cut&paste at the moment. The plan is to enable it through virtio-serial and have spice & vnc use it. Cannot guarantee a date but it shouldn't be too long.

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Am 27.05.2010 15:19, schrieb Dor Laor:

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Just installed Fedora13 as guest on KVM. However there is no cross-platform "copy and paste" feature. I trust I have setup this feature on other guest sometime before. Unfortunately I can't the relevant document. Could you please shed me some light. Pointer would be appreciated. TIA

Did you try;

# modprobe virtio-copypaste

?

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Seriously, qemu does not make it easy (well, its GUI does not make most things easy) and you'll need a tool which synchronizes the clipboard between two machines (google for "qemu copy paste"?).

There is no cut&paste at the moment. The plan is to enable it through virtio-serial and have spice & vnc use it. Cannot guarantee a date but it shouldn't be too long.

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Maybe NX / FreeNX will suit your needs.

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