Clipboard Sharing Between VirtualBox Host and Linux Guest Stops Working

Max Rohde Unix November 10, 2014 1 Minute

Problem

You are using VirtualBox with a Linux Guest and the clipboard sharing between Host and Guest stops working.

Solution

Open a Terminal on the Linux Guest and run the following two commands:

killall VBoxClient VBoxClient-all

References

Published by Max Rohde

Long-time coder, PhD and former lecturer. Currently leading awesome engineering teams. View all posts by Max Rohde

Published November 10, 2014

Liviu Balan says:

November 17, 2015 at 8:58 pm

If you want to see more about Shared Clipboard on Virtualbox you can checkout Virtualbox Bidirectional Shared Clipboard video tutorial.

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