I'm running a Windows 10 host system, with VirtualBox 7.0.6 and a VM with Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS.
I have installed the VBox Guest Additions (7.0.6) and I'm now faced with a weird issue: most of the GAs functionalities are there (e.g. VM resolution adjusts with VM window size automatically), however the bi-directional clipboard sharing does not work at startup.
If I use VBoxClient --clipboard
it starts working, but it stops at the next reboot.
I already tried:
- Using
ps aux | grep -i 'VBox'
to find out that these processes are running:
root 449 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I< 10:14 0:00 [iprt-VBoxWQueue]
root 759 0.0 0.0 158088 1144 ? Sl 10:14 0:00 /usr/bin/VBoxDRMClient
root 762 0.0 0.0 297652 3948 ? Sl 10:14 0:00 /usr/sbin/VBoxService
root 982 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I< 10:14 0:00 [iprt-VBoxWQueue]
root 1015 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 10:14 0:00 [iprt-VBoxTscThr]
- Adding a cron job that runs the
VBoxClient --clipboard
command at boot
- Adding a startup application that runs that command
- Adding that command to my /etc/profile
- Creating a service that executes that command
None of these ever worked, with the 'service' approach making also the command line execution of VBoxClient --clipboard
not work.
Does anybody have further suggestions to debug this?