| 1 | <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE topic PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "topic.dtd">
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| 3 | <topic xml:lang="en-us" id="guestadd-clipboard">
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| 4 | <title>Clipboard</title>
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| 5 |
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| 6 | <body>
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| 7 | <p><ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> enables you to copy clipboard content from the host to the
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| 8 | guest, and vice versa. For this to work the latest version of the Guest Additions must be installed on the
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| 9 | guest.</p>
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| 10 | <p>For security reasons drag and drop can be configured at runtime on a per-VM basis either using the <b
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| 11 | outputclass="bold">Shared Clipboard</b> menu item in the <b outputclass="bold">Devices</b> menu of the virtual
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| 12 | machine, or the <userinput>VBoxManage</userinput> command. </p>
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| 13 | <p>The following shared clipboard settings are available: </p>
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| 14 | <ul id="ul_onq_r24_hcc">
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| 15 | <li>
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| 16 | <p><b outputclass="bold">Disabled</b>. Disables the copy feature entirely. This is the default when creating a
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| 17 | new VM. </p>
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| 18 | </li>
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| 19 | <li>
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| 20 | <p><b outputclass="bold">Host To Guest</b>. Enables text copy operations from the host to the guest only. </p>
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| 21 | </li>
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| 22 | <li>
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| 23 | <p><b outputclass="bold">Guest To Host</b>. Enables text copy operations from the guest to the host only. </p>
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| 24 | </li>
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| 25 | <li>
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| 26 | <p><b outputclass="bold">Bidirectional</b>. Enables text copy operations in both directions: from the host to
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| 27 | the guest, and from the guest to the host. </p>
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| 28 | </li>
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| 29 | <li><b>Enable Clipboard File Transfers</b>. Allows files, in addition to text, to be copied to or from the VM.
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| 30 | </li>
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| 31 | </ul>
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| 32 | <p>To use the <userinput>VBoxManage</userinput> command to control the current clipboard mode, see <xref
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| 33 | href="vboxmanage.dita#vboxmanage"/>. The <userinput>modifyvm</userinput> and <userinput>controlvm</userinput>
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| 34 | commands enable setting of a VM's current clipboard mode from the command line.</p>
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| 35 | </body>
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| 36 | </topic>
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