Jan 182014
 

Small tip for virtualbox: how you can enable copy (and paste) from host to guest and from guest to host.

Most when playing with virtual machines you would like to copy pieces of code from host machine to guest OS and vice versa.

By default after installing virtual box, this feature is not activated, but can be enabled very easy.
In the main menu of the windows where the guest OS is running is a submenu “Devices”.
Just select Devices -> Sharecropped -> Bidirectional ; likeĀ  in the picture bellow.

Virtualbox enable shared clipboard

Virtualbox enable shared clipboard

And now the copy -> paste should work without any problem.

E.g. you just found on the net an interesting piece of code browsing from host OS, but net is not enabled on the guest OS; now you can test it just doing copy->paste.

Keep in mind that this setting is for virtual machine. So, if you will play other image of a VM, you have to do the same settings.

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