From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dor Laor Subject: Re: "Copy and paste" feature across guest and host Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 16:19:12 +0300 Message-ID: <4BFE7150.70505@redhat.com> References: <4BFE3892.2030203@wpkg.org> Reply-To: dlaor@redhat.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "kvm@vger.kernel.org" To: Tomasz Chmielewski Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:29432 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750904Ab0E0NRf (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 May 2010 09:17:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4BFE3892.2030203@wpkg.org> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 05/27/2010 12:17 PM, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: >> 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"?). There is no cut&paste at the moment. The plan is to enable it through virtio-serial and have spice & vnc use it. Cannot guarantee a date but it shouldn't be too long.