Bidirectional clipboard not working in VirtualBox

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I'm using VirtualBox Version 5.2.6 r120293 (Qt5.6.1).

Guest OS: Windows 7 Ultimate (32-bit)
Host OS: CentOS 7

I tried enabling bidirectional clipboard by going to Settings -> General -> Advanced and selecting Bidirectional form the dropdown menu for shared clipboard.

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Then I restarted the machine. But it wasn't working.

I have already tried removing and adding the VM to the machine list. But the problem persists.

Any help would be appreciated.

Bilesh Ganguly

Posted 2018-02-08T07:10:03.180

Reputation: 323

2Have you installed the Guest Additions on the Windows 7 guest? – n8te – 2018-02-08T07:21:21.697

@n8te I don't think so. Can you guide me to it? – Bilesh Ganguly – 2018-02-08T07:24:54.703

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The guest additions are required to be able to use the bidirectional clipboard so that should be the cause of your issue if you don't remember installing it. See here.

– n8te – 2018-02-08T07:27:44.383

Possible duplicate of VirtualBox 4.3.12, Windows 7 as guest and host OS: host -> guest clipboard not working

– n8te – 2018-02-08T07:28:42.490

@n8te Guest additions weren't installed. So, I installed that and the bidirectional clipboard started working. Thank you for the help. – Bilesh Ganguly – 2018-02-08T09:15:00.323

Answers

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You need to add extension pack for you virtualbox

  1. Open https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox and open your Virtualbox version
  2. Download Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack.vbox-extpack.
  3. Open Virtualbox VM Manager
  4. In File->Preferences, Select Extension
  5. Now add extension by browsing to download location

Done.

Ravi Bhardwaj

Posted 2018-02-08T07:10:03.180

Reputation: 51

1It didn't work for me ! – Othman Benchekroun – 2019-08-22T13:49:22.703

none of the "solutions" provided here work for me . I have the Share clopboard bidireccional active, + guest additions CD installed + the Extension pack installed, still no clipboard exchange between a linux box (guest) an the Windows 10 (host) – Victor Barrantes – 2020-02-22T05:52:50.313

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