[Spice-devel] clipboard

[ToddAndMargo]

On 09/15/2014 12:47 AM, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> Hey,
>
> On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 01:52:59PM -0700, ToddAndMargo wrote:
>> How do you enable copy and paste from a Windows VM to
>> the host Linux machine?
>
> You need to have the SPICE agent running in the Windows guests, and the
> VM needs to have the needed devices for guest/host communication, see
> http://people.freedesktop.org/~teuf/spice-doc/html/ch02s05.html
>
> This will give you c&p between the client machine and the guest, which
> may or may not be the same as the host. The host is the machine where
> you run QEMU, the client is the machine where you run the SPICE client
> (remote-viewer) in order to connect to the VM you are interested in
> using the SPICE protocol.
>
> Christophe
>

Hi Christophe,

I was running a bunch of stuff with virt-manager's viewer.
Switch back to Spice fixed it.

Thank you!

-T

Believe it or not, I had forgotten why I used Spice.

I also run two XP VM's, mainly to run Citrix's Go To
Assist Express.  The clipboard works for a while and then
your have to shut the vm's down and reboot.

I don't think that situation will get any better
very soon.  Citrix wants me in a native Windows
machine.  They also want me in W7+.  But with
being able to run W7 and W8 in vm's as well,
I can easily see how much slower and more
unstable they are than XP.  And when I am remote
assisting someone, I really, really do not want to
deal with slow and unstable.  Which is why I have
two XP vm's: if one won't run then the other one
will, until I have time to fix the first.  (Usually
I just restore the image from backup.)

Citrix does sound like they are thinking about support
Linux from the Agent side.  Maybe ...


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