VBox Clipboard sharing not running at startup

Andrea Bellora

3/24/24, 9:18 AM

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?

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