Copy-paste between Hyper-V guest and host
You can use ncat
- which also has a windows port - to transfer data over network. On one system you run it in "listen" mode, where it binds to some port, on the other system you connect to that port on the other machine. This creates a bi-directional pipe. On Linux you can choose from more variants (GNU netcat, BSD netcat, socat...). Apart from the obvious man page, you can also have a look at the wikipedia netcat article.
Note: on both systems you run these in the terminal (Windows command line, Unix shell) - the copy-paste has to happen twice: on one machine you copy from the source and paste it into the terminal which is running ncat. The data is transferred to the other machine, where you copy it from the terminal to its final destination.
Other option is to exchange files over a Windows share (Samba on Linux).
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novicegis
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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novicegis about 1 year
My computer runs Windows Server 2008 R2. It hosts a Hyper-V virtual machine running Ubuntu 12.04 as the guest OS.
I want to copy text from Ubuntu and paste this text in Windows (and copy text in Windows and paste it in Ubuntu). How can I do this?
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Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' about 10 yearsVirtualBox and VMware come with “guest tools”: programs that you install in the guest to get niceties such as shared directories and copy-paste. Does Hyper-V come with guest tools? If so, install them.
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Isodata-JP about 9 yearsI use Putty to ssh the Hyper-V machine command prompt. Copy Paste works both ways easily.
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novicegis about 10 yearsThanks. So I can do "ctrl + c" in Windows Server and then "ctrl + v" in Ubuntu and I copy text. Do I copy text this way after ncat tuning?
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peterph about 10 yearsNo, this doesn't work that easy. :) See updated answer.
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Warren P about 7 yearsType clipboard text doesn't work with most Linux distros in X11