Copy/paste not working in my virtual box

tiggerfanatic · 08-01-2014, 12:04 PM

I sure hope someone can help me as I am new to Linux. I have a virtual machine installed on my Windows 8 computer and the virtual machine has CentOS 6.5 and after an update I can no longer copy/paste from outside sources (such as my from my e-mail from Gmail into my terminal in the virtual machine). I do have bidirectional under the advanced tab.

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Any help would be appreciated!

Habitual · 08-01-2014, 01:28 PM

Welcome to LQ!

Please open a terminal and issue:

Code:

VirtualBox --help | head -1

and reply with Virtualbox version info.

tiggerfanatic · 08-01-2014, 01:49 PM

Sorry, but I don't know what you mean by that? All I know is I am using Virtual Box from Virtualbox.org

szboardstretcher · 08-01-2014, 01:56 PM

Type the command?

suicidaleggroll · 08-01-2014, 02:01 PM

Chances are the update included a kernel update, which means the guest additions will need to be recompiled/reinstalled. You should be able to do this the same way you did it initially.

tiggerfanatic · 08-01-2014, 02:16 PM

I actually did reinstall the guest additions because my pointer at the bottom all of a sudden had said pointer is not captured so I thought that might have something to do w/ it. I am going to post some screenshots here.

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tiggerfanatic · 08-01-2014, 06:05 PM

Suicidaleggroll how do I remove the guest additions first so can re-install as I only see info to install when I search?

Thanks