Support for shared clipboard

[sobrinho]

Hi guys,

I don't see any way to make a shared clipboard between the guest and the host.

I would to be able to do something like that:

echo something | xclip
echo something | xsel

And the content goes to the clipboard of the host.

Currently I got:

/vagrant (2.1.3p242) (master)
λ echo something | xsel
xsel: Can't open display: (null)
: Inappropriate ioctl for device

/vagrant (2.1.3p242) (master)
λ echo something | xclip
Error: Can't open display: (null)

/vagrant (2.1.3p242) (master)
λ echo something | xvfb-run xclip
XIO:  fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":99"
      after 10 requests (7 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

/vagrant (2.1.3p242) (master)
λ echo something | xvfb-run xsel

The last one does return success but the content doesn't go the host clipboard.

I have configured the shared clipboard on Vagrantfile as this:

    web.vm.provider :virtualbox do |vb|                                                                                 
      vb.memory = 4096                                                                                                  
      vb.cpus = 2                                                                                                       

      vb.customize ['modifyvm', :id, '--clipboard', 'bidirectional']                                                    
    end                                                                                                                 

Am I missing something or there is no way to do that today?

[sethvargo]

Did you reload the VM after making those changes in the Vagrantfile?

[sobrinho]

Yes. It was supposed to work?

Note that it's a headless guest, ubuntu trusty 64.

[sethvargo]

Even though this issue mentions Windows as the host, this is a VirtualBox issue (https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10057).

As a workaround, I would recommend using vagrant ssh and pasting the content via the terminal.

[ankostis]

@sobrinho wrote:

Did you reload the VM after making those changes in the Vagrantfile?

Thanks. When i re-launched the VM, the setting was there.

 

 

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