Clipboard between the VM and VNC viewer?

[luca]

Apologies if this has been asked before, I searched the forum to no avail.  Is there a way to have the clipboard working between a Win 7 VM and the VNC Viewer?  File transfer would be nice too. 

[jonp]

Apologies if this has been asked before, I searched the forum to no avail.  Is there a way to have the clipboard working between a Win 7 VM and the VNC Viewer?  File transfer would be nice too.  [emoji14]

Not yet, but we are experimenting with a few things that could make this possible.

[RichardU]

I made the same search and ended up here. Hopefully this thread will one day be updated with the solution.

 

The only workaround I can think of is to use Teamviewer instead of VNC. I call up Teamviewer with an Autohotkey script that takes me directly to a VM. This one is called with Alt-Shift-S:

 

; Teamviewer for .201 VM

;

!+s::

;

Run, C:\Program Files (x86)\TeamViewer\teamviewer.exe -i 192.168.1.201 -P password

 

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[luca]

Good idea RichardU.  I tried Radmin (I had an old license lying around) and it works just fine, though it does require one extra click to actually "get" the clipboard from the remote.

[jonp]

So I've been testing out an internal build using SPICE as opposed to VNC lately.  Long and short is that with SPICE, we can support copy/paste and even potentially USB device redirection (although I haven't tested that yet).