From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=43222 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OiXfP-0004sJ-78 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:05:48 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OiXfM-0004vm-Aj for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:05:46 -0400 Received: from adelie.canonical.com ([91.189.90.139]:51119) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OiXfM-0004vU-3q for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:05:44 -0400 Received: from loganberry.canonical.com ([91.189.90.37]) by adelie.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69 #1 (Debian)) id 1OiXfL-0001Xa-4d for ; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:05:43 +0100 Received: from loganberry.canonical.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by loganberry.canonical.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19ACF2E8762 for ; Mon, 9 Aug 2010 20:05:43 +0100 (BST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 18:59:54 -0000 From: Paolo Bonzini Sender: bounces@canonical.com References: <20100808101945.28279.87619.malonedeb@potassium.ubuntu.com> Message-Id: <20100809185954.5815.83096.malone@wampee.canonical.com> Errors-To: bounces@canonical.com Subject: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 614958] Re: copy-paste between client and host Reply-To: Bug 614958 <614958@bugs.launchpad.net> List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org SPICE is supposed to address this kind of issue. Hopefully it will be merged in 0.14. Anyway, after SPICE support is merged this feature would belong in SPICE, not in QEMU. See http://spice- space.org/page/Features/SharedClipboard for more information. We might keep this open until SPICE is merged, but I'm not sure this bug really belongs in QEMU's bug tracker. -- = copy-paste between client and host https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/614958 You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. Status in QEMU: New Bug description: Hi, I propose that copy/paste between VMs be implemented somehow directly in QE= MU. This has been discussed repeatedly elsewhere; various solutions are propose= d. See below. As it is, each user has to do their own research and testing if they are to= find a solution. This makes the product frustratingly unattractive for m= any. Most solutions involve either running vnc and using a vnc client that suppo= rts copy/paste (this can be tricky to find itself), or running some other t= cp-based copy-paste application. = For many users, the networking in a client VM is unimportant--they just wan= t to run some application there, and setting up netoworking in a VM itself = can be an issue. Most of these solutions rely on un-maintained software, a= nd some require that other software be installed to make them work (Basic i= nterpreter, Java, etc). Any of these solutions take some work to set up. I can tell you, the absence of a copy/paste mechanism makes the project an = immediate no-go for many users. I work with a guy who spent a lot of time = trying, gave up, and switched to VirtualBox for this exact reason. It would be much better if copy/paste worked out of the box. Ideally, it s= hould work independently of networking. Cheers! Some discussions and proposed solutions: ----------------------------------------------------- http://qemu-forum.ipi.fi/viewtopic.php?f=3D4&t=3D161 Somebody suggests VNC into the virtual host, and use vncviewer Somebody else suggests TCP/IP Clipboard (text editor with tcp/ip) http://qemu-forum.ipi.fi/viewtopic.php?f=3D4&t=3D2626 primitive app for sharing text across machines (in Basic) http://homepage.mac.com/bnej/shareclip/ http://borderworlds.dk/blog/20070217-00.html Says doesn't know a good solution but points to unmaintained package Qemu Guest Tools http://wolfpackally.wo.funpic.de/qemu/qgt/ http://bonzoli.com/docs/How_to_setup_Qemu_on_Fedora_8.html proposes Java remoteclip running on client and server http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/rcm/WWW/RemoteClip/