Can't get the shared clipboard to work on Ubuntu 14.04

virtualbox clipboard sharing

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The VirtualBox guest additions provide clipboard integration between the host and a X11 GUI running in the guest. They don't provide clipboard integration with a Linux console guest (there is a feature request for this, but it's understandably very low priority, because very few people use that feature).

If you want a comfortable interface inside the guest, install a GUI, for a negligible added cost in disk space. Use a lighter GUI than Gnome/Unity if you want to save RAM.

If you want a comfortable command line interface to the guest, use SSH in a terminal emulator of your choice running in the host. Use the console inside the guest only when you've screwed up the firewall.

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Andrea Moro

My name is Andrea Moro, and I'm an IT passionate since I was 8 years old, when my dad bought me a C64. Some years later, I've got my first PC and in 1994 my first experience ever with Internet, with which I immediately felt in love and that today it is part of the SEO job. The chat has been undoubtedly the first thing I've become familiar with: dozens of hours spent in front of a computer with friends all around the world up to the deep night and more. And finally the WWW; my first web site (the commercial one) is dated 1996. I should still have some backup copy somewhere, but to be honest with you, I don't want to have a look at it ...

Updated on September 18, 2022

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Andrea Moro over 1 year

I'm working on a VM that I've recently updated to the 14.04LTS.

Although the Guest additions are installed, the support for both clipboard and drag and drop is set to bidirectional, when my mouse over the VM I can't see the cursor nor I can't copy and paste in both directions as expected.

I'm using the server edition without any GUI installed.

Any idea?
Andrea Moro almost 10 years

can you try to be a bit more precise when you say "put some source code"?
h3. almost 10 years

The guest additions, which the asker has already installed, provide clipboard integration only in the GUI, which is explicitly not the point of this question.