Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.1.0 shared clipboard not working
Ok, here's my set-up:
- version: VirtualBox-4.1.0-73009-Win.exe
- installed on Windows XP SP3 (=host)
- extensions installed: Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.1.0-73009.vbox-extpack
- guest OS = Oracle Linux 6.1 with KDE
After the installation of Oracle Linux 6.1, I installed the Guest Additions and rebooted the guest. The OpenGL configuration failed but I'm not sure if that's related to my problem.
So the problem is that clipboard sharing didn't work between my host and the guest (both ways). It was enabled under the General Settings.
After some debugging, I noticed that the VBoxClient processes were not running. Starting them manually with user root solved the problem.
The script 98vboxadd-xclient.sh under /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d is present, and I believe this should be executed during the startup of X? Looks like this is not happening (or it happens, but it crashes for some reason). When I execute 98vboxadd-xclient.sh manually with user root, everything works fine...
Anyone else with the same issue?? Is this a known bug?
Thanks,
Matthias
Update: looks like the shared clipboard only works when I log in as user root. For a "normal" user, it doesn't work...
Edited by: mhoys on Aug 3, 2011 2:12 PM