On Sun, 2013-07-21 at 13:49 -0400, Andrew Cathrow wrote:

----- Original Message ----- 

> From: "Dean Hunter" <deanhunter@comcast.net>
> To: libvirt-users@redhat.com
> Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2013 1:41:16 PM
> Subject: [libvirt-users] Clipboard

> I am unable to cut and paste between a Fedora 19 host and a Fedora 19
> guest.

> Am I doing something wrong or is this a known problem that I have not
> been able to find?

It's hard to say with the level of details you have here.

If you're using the spice protocol and you have the guest agent (spice-vdagent) installed inside the VM then you'll be able to cut and paste in graphical consoles.


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Oops, I apologize. I am using virt-install as follows to create the virtual machines and I am connecting to the virtual machines from a different physical machine using virt-manager or virt-viewer via SSH. I thought this combination was sharing the clipboard when everything was on Fedora 18, but since upgrading to Fedora 19 the clipboard does not seem to be shared.

      virt-install \
        --autostart \
        --channel unix,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/guest.agent,mode=bind,target_type=virtio,name=org.qemu.guest_agent.0 \
        --connect qemu:///system \
        --disk vol=Guests/$domain \
        --extra-args "inst.ks=file:/$(basename $kickstart)" \
        --graphics spice \
        --initrd-inject $kickstart \
        --location http://192.168.$subnet.10/repos/fedora$releasever/iso \
        --name $domain \
        --network network=Subnet$subnet \
        --noautoconsole \
        --os-type linux \
        --os-variant fedora18 \
        --ram 2048 \
        --vcpus 2

Here is the XML definition of the virtual machine:

<domain type='kvm' id='6'>
<name>Desktop</name>
<uuid>bc868fd8-62a3-a05c-f62a-3983e72c1aa6</uuid>
<memory unit='KiB'>2097152</memory>
<currentMemory unit='KiB'>2097152</currentMemory>
<vcpu placement='static'>2</vcpu>
<resource>
    <partition>/machine</partition>
</resource>
<os>
    <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-1.2'>hvm</type>
    <boot dev='hd'/>
</os>
<features>
    <acpi/>
    <apic/>
    <pae/>
</features>
<clock offset='utc'/>
<on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
<on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
<on_crash>restart</on_crash>
<devices>
    <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-kvm</emulator>
    <disk type='block' device='disk'>
      <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
      <source dev='/dev/Guests/Desktop'/>
      <target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/>
      <alias name='virtio-disk0'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' function='0x0'/>
    </disk>
    <disk type='block' device='cdrom'>
      <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
      <target dev='hdc' bus='ide'/>
      <readonly/>
      <alias name='ide0-1-0'/>
      <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='1' target='0' unit='0'/>
    </disk>
    <controller type='usb' index='0'>
      <alias name='usb0'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x2'/>
    </controller>
    <controller type='ide' index='0'>
      <alias name='ide0'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x1'/>
    </controller>
    <controller type='virtio-serial' index='0'>
      <alias name='virtio-serial0'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04' function='0x0'/>
    </controller>
    <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pci-root'>
      <alias name='pci0'/>
    </controller>
    <interface type='network'>
      <mac address='52:54:00:cf:a2:22'/>
      <source network='Subnet1'/>
      <target dev='vnet1'/>
      <model type='virtio'/>
      <alias name='net0'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/>
    </interface>
    <serial type='pty'>
      <source path='/dev/pts/2'/>
      <target port='0'/>
      <alias name='serial0'/>
    </serial>
    <console type='pty' tty='/dev/pts/2'>
      <source path='/dev/pts/2'/>
      <target type='serial' port='0'/>
      <alias name='serial0'/>
    </console>
    <channel type='unix'>
      <source mode='bind' path='/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/guest.agent'/>
      <target type='virtio' name='org.qemu.guest_agent.0'/>
      <alias name='channel0'/>
      <address type='virtio-serial' controller='0' bus='0' port='1'/>
    </channel>
    <channel type='spicevmc'>
      <target type='virtio' name='com.redhat.spice.0'/>
      <alias name='channel1'/>
      <address type='virtio-serial' controller='0' bus='0' port='2'/>
    </channel>
    <input type='tablet' bus='usb'>
      <alias name='input0'/>
    </input>
    <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/>
    <graphics type='spice' port='5901' autoport='yes' listen='127.0.0.1'>
      <listen type='address' address='127.0.0.1'/>
    </graphics>
    <video>
      <model type='qxl' ram='65536' vram='65536' heads='1'/>
      <alias name='video0'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/>
    </video>
    <memballoon model='virtio'>
      <alias name='balloon0'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x06' function='0x0'/>
    </memballoon>
</devices>
<seclabel type='dynamic' model='selinux' relabel='yes'>
    <label>system_u:system_r:svirt_t:s0:c665,c969</label>
    <imagelabel>system_u:object_r:svirt_image_t:s0:c665,c969</imagelabel>
</seclabel>
</domain>