On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 5:33 PM, Kenneth Wolcott
<kennethwolcott(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi;
unable to copy&paste between VirtualBox Windows7 host and Fedora23
VirtualBox guest
1. I have the VirtualBox Guest Additions installed on the Fedora 23
VirtualBox Guest;
2. I have bidirectional copy and paste enabled in VirtualBox for the
Fedora 23 VirtualBox Guest;
3. copy&paste does not work either way;
I have a Debian Jessie VirtualBox Guest on this same VirtualBox
WIndows 7 host where bidirectional copy&paste works just fine.
I have already requested assistance on the VirtualBox mailing list.
The first tip was to verify that copy&paste was actually enabled by
running VBoxManage:
cd /cygdrive/c/Program Files/Oracle/VirtualBox
./VBoxManage.exe showvminfo trombone | grep 'Drag and drop'
Drag and drop Mode: Bidirectional
./VBoxManage.exe showvminfo bassoon | grep 'Drag and drop'
Drag and drop Mode: Bidirectional
[trombone is Debian Jessie and bassoon is Fedora 23]
The second tip was to to look at
https://goo.gl/6PtJtE which I'm still
trying to grok.
Does anyone have any additional tips?
Thanks,
Ken Wolcott
I was able to resolve the problem by updating the OS by applying all
pending updates (one was a kernel update), rebooting, then removing
and re-installing the Guest Additions and then rebooting once again.