Is it possible to copy paste with QEMU?
I’m running Arch on my machine with Kali in a QEMU VM and I’d like to copy paste between the two. How can this be done?
I know this isn’t a real answer, but it’s what I use as a stop gap measure… I basically have a text file called buffer, and ssh into the VM on a terminal on my host, and paste into the buffer file.
I know it’s lame, but for simple text and stuff, it works. For things like files and pics, I use a shared drive.
If someone has a better answer… Please let me know!
Grug brained solution. It no fancy but work. Grug happy. Now have time to relax.
I assume you’re using a GUI or else you could just ssh. I also assume you’re currently using a VNC viewer of some sort?
RDP does support copy/paste. I haven’t tried it with a qemu VM, only a VMware VM (what my work uses), and it mostly works. I have xrdp running on the target device, then I just use Windows’ built-in RDP client to log in.
Spice-vdagent on the VM client.
I presume that only works if you use spice, tho
