From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tomasz Chmielewski Subject: Re: "Copy and paste" feature across guest and host Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 11:17:06 +0200 Message-ID: <4BFE3892.2030203@wpkg.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "kvm@vger.kernel.org" Return-path: Received: from mx03.syneticon.net ([78.111.66.105]:57134 "EHLO mx03.syneticon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751946Ab0E0J0Q (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 May 2010 05:26:16 -0400 Received: from localhost (filter1.syneticon.net [192.168.113.83]) by mx03.syneticon.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4258D36010 for ; Thu, 27 May 2010 11:17:16 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mx03.syneticon.net ([192.168.113.84]) by localhost (mx03.syneticon.net [192.168.113.83]) (amavisd-new, port 10025) with ESMTP id dHIiW55vJ9nu for ; Thu, 27 May 2010 11:17:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.10.145] (e183095092.adsl.alicedsl.de [85.183.95.92]) by mx03.syneticon.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA for ; Thu, 27 May 2010 11:17:07 +0200 (CEST) Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > Just installed Fedora13 as guest on KVM. However there is no > cross-platform "copy and paste" feature. I trust I have setup this > feature on other guest sometime before. Unfortunately I can't the > relevant document. Could you please shed me some light. Pointer > would be appreciated. TIA Did you try; # modprobe virtio-copypaste ? Seriously, qemu does not make it easy (well, its GUI does not make most things easy) and you'll need a tool which synchronizes the clipboard between two machines (google for "qemu copy paste"?). -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org