In a virtual box environment, I've added a second distro: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
So, now I have MX Linux and U.18.04 in a VB.

Is there a way to copy a LibreWriter doc (.ODT) from LM to U. 18.04.

I should note that MX has LW 6.1.5; while 18.04 has 6.0.x

I have GA installed, and copy and paste works to the extent that if you were to copy text from Firefox, on the host, and you went to U.18.04, and opened up an ASCII text editor, (for example, or even LWriter, the text would paste.

But, inside a Virtual Box Environment, copying and pasting, so far, hasn't worked for me.
Thanks in Advance,

Pen guin

As far as I know the shared clipboard is only between the host and a guest.

Never tried it but bi-directional needs to be enabled I'd think.

I have bi-directional enabled...

I can't either and as far as I know clipboard sharing between guests is not possible.

not sure what do you want to share?
1) text between to apps?
it works but with limitations:
limitations
a) you have to open in both VM applications first.
b) you need to copy selected text to clipboard twice


I tested it also between different apps and it works too but you may need to repeat copy operation more than twice.
It just seems as operation of copying and pasting between two VM clients requires more time.

I tested this between Slackware VM client and MXlinux VM client. VM host is (also) Slackware


edit:
Just tested clipboard copy/paste between VM client Slackware and VM client Windows (Slackware Libreoffice writer and Windows Writer). Works too.

An easy way would be to have a common shared folder. Copy the document to the shared folder in one distro and it would be immediately visible in the other distro's shared folder.

Well guess I was just not giving it enough time.

It looks like a double ctrl-c works but single does not. I could not find anything in the VirtualBox documentation.

As stated to copy documents use shared folders.

That is what I have set up to share documents between VM host and VM clients, but my understanding was that OP wants to use clipboard?

Anyway, copy/paste and file sharing in Virtualbox all work

I tried. I really did. I couldn't navigate back to my document, via the Windows File Explorer.

How did you guys do it, set up a shared folder?

I also tried Control C twice, and then paste, but to no avail. (in the MX Linux distro.)

TIA,

Pen guin

Do you have guest additions installed for both guests?

Have a look at this guide.
https://www.howtogeek.com/189974/how...rtual-machine/

Yes, I can see GA is attached to the virtual drive re: both distros.

Does that mean that shared folders is working?

No, because in the vid I saw, she said you have to identify the folder on the host system, (windows in her case,) so, I tried to go to my VM installation, and drill down from there to the specific file. But, I couldn't get to right directory via windows. What I found was Ubuntu 18.04, and two folders beneath that.(Both of which were empty.) So, that's as far as I got.

I don't know what you mean by GA is attached to the virtual drive

Did you read the guide I posted? You pick the desired directory to be shared and then assign it a virtual drive name. Shared folders is basically creating a Windows share without samba. If you do not know what samba is then it really isn't important except it creates a Windows share. When you click on browse network in your file browser it should show your host as VBOXSRV and then when you click its icon you should see the shared folder.