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I have VirtualBox installed and shared-clipboard is enabled as bi-directional.

But it does not work at all.

How can I get it working?

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  • Do you have the VirtualBox Add-ons installed inside the VM? Mar 30, 2014 at 10:03
  • I dont know. How do I check?
    – Umair Ayub
    Mar 30, 2014 at 10:05
  • Andreas means Virtualbox Guest Additions. Mar 30, 2014 at 10:05
  • Yes, indeed. @MariaMeh: Depends on your guest operating system. Mar 30, 2014 at 10:06
  • I have Ubuntu 12.04 installed inside that. Once it was working. It did not when I re-installed the Ubuntu 12.04 inside VirtualBox
    – Umair Ayub
    Mar 30, 2014 at 10:07

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  • First install virtual box guest addition by mounting the VirtualBoxguestAddition.iso file.It was actually resides inside c:/Program Files/oracle/virtualbox folder.

  • In Windows 8, guestadditions.iso file will be automatically mounted when you double click on that iso file.

  • After it got mounted, it automatically prompts you install guest additions in the host OS.

  • Then install the guest Additions in the guest OS(Ubuntu).

  • Because of you're running Ubuntu as guest OS, you have to run the below commands on terminal,

    $ killall VBoxClient
    $ VBoxClient-all
    
  • Now you can be able to use shared clipboard option.

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