Ubuntu 18.04 Desktop Clipboard Sharing Not Working Using VirtualBox
I have a desktop Ubuntu virtual machine(VM) ready to be cloned so I can spin up a VM as quick as possible.
Recently, the machines would loose the ability to share clipboard and the fix is below:
sudo apt install virtualbox-guest-x11
Then run the guest clipboard service:
sudo VBoxClient --clipboard
Why doesn’t clipboard sharing work with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS inside VirtualBox 5.1.26?
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