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 QEMU. This has been discussed repeatedly elsewhere; various solutions are proposed. 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 many. Most solutions involve either running vnc and using a vnc client that supports copy/paste (this can be tricky to find itself), or running some other tcp-based copy-paste application. For many users, the networking in a client VM is unimportant--they just want 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, and some require that other software be installed to make them work (Basic interpreter, 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 should work independently of networking. Cheers! Some discussions and proposed solutions: ----------------------------------------------------- http://qemu-forum.ipi.fi/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=161 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=4&t=2626 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/
