While running a Virtual Machine on your computer, you may have felt the need to copy and paste text orfiles from VirtualBox to the host PCor the reverse. Though being super useful, it isn’t something you may enjoy right after the normal installation of VirtualBox.
VirtualBox doesn’t enable this feature by default. However, you may have the workaround by installing VirtualBox’s Guest Additions on your virtual machine and toggling the settings.
Read through this article for detailed steps to enable copy-paste and fix its issues as well for Virtualbox.
How to Fix Copy Paste on Virtualbox?
Some of the fixes that will help you solve the copy-paste not working problem are discussed below.
Install/Update Guest Additions
Copying and pasting from your PC to Virtual Box or vice-versa won’t work by default. You will have toInstall the VirtualBox Guest Additionsto enable the various tools along with the copy-paste feature. Proceed with the steps mentioned below:
The steps mentioned below will help you in installing Guest Additions:
In case theDevicesoption isn’t showing in your nav-bar menu, you may follow the steps mentioned below to install the Guest Additions:
Follow the steps to install Guest Additions on Mac:
To install Guest Additions on Linux virtual machine, follow:
Enable Shared Clipboard
Even after you installed the Guest Additions for VirtualBox, the copy-paste may not work due to the misconfigured settings. You need to change settings to Bidirectional for Shared Clipboard and Drag’n’Drop features. Follow along the given steps to do so:
Restart VirtualBox Client
Users have reported copy-paste not working for guest OS of VirtualBox even after installing guest addition and changing settings to bidirectional. To fix it, you may manually restart your VirtualBox client, or you can run the following commands on your Ubuntu guest in the terminal:$ killall VBoxClient$ VBoxClient-all
