Installed in a vm manjaro with the cosmic desktop. There’s just an issue copying from guest to host.
From the host to the guest i can copy text.
So virtualbox-guest-utils is installed and on the host the modules.
Anyone experiencing the same and perhaps a solution ?
Incorrect - this is for the guest only…
To be able to copy-paste between host-guest - check the user’s group membership.
See the [root tip] [How To] VirtualBox - Installation - USB - Shared Folder
host user: member of vboxusers
guest system: running vboxservice.service
guest system: for shared folders: member of vboxsf
Hi,
Copy / paste between host - guest is possible. The copy/ paste from guest to host not.
the guest-utils are only installed on the guest.
On other non-cosmic vm’s copy - paste both ways work only on cosmic from guest to host not.
If you are running a native Cosmic installation as guest - you will need to ask the Cosmic community for relevant information.
I am fairly convinced that a native Manjaro with a cosmic desktop will work as expected.
thanks will do. FYI a friend installed cosmic and experiended same thing so indeed perhaps the cosmic community.
Still it’s nice to try this desktop.
I am running a manjaro system with a cosmic desktop - works really good.
simply run
sudo pacman -Syu cosmic
logout and login with Cosmic
sure i did a sudo pacman -Syu cosmic
Enabled the cosmic service sudo systemctl enable cosmic-greeter and started that service
Did you use x11 on your vm ?
No - I use bare-metal, are you sure x11 will work?
I may be wrong but I think cosmic is Wayland only and x is provided using a compatibility layer?
If that is correct, it might explain why guest-to-host is not working but host-to-guest is.
It is, yes.
Note that bidirectional clipboard support in VirtualBox has been known to be flaky for many years; it either works, or it doesn’t.
Configuring Shared Folders temporarily tends to be more reliable when moving larger amounts of data between the Guest and Host.
after reading i noticed indeed that x11 is not possible … it is wayland only so yes only host to guest.