I’m going to walk you through the process of installing the Guest Additions that should work on any Linux distribution (you will have to modify the installation command to suit your distribution’s package manager). Without the Guest Additions installed, copy and paste will not work. The process will be similar for nearly any platform (you’ll just need to adjust one particular step).

I’ll be demonstrating this on an Elementary OS host and a Fedora 26 guest. What if you could make that feature actually work? Better yet, what if you could enable the action so that it would work both ways (from host to guest and guest to host)? That would make working with VirtualBox significantly easier. This comes, once again, from the department of “Should be working out of the box.” Have you ever needed to type out a long string of text, a line of code, URL, or paragraph, into your VirtualBox guest–knowing said text is sitting there, waiting patiently, on your host? You want to simply copy and paste it, but the action never seems to work. For more info, visit our Terms of Use page. This may influence how and where their products appear on our site, but vendors cannot pay to influence the content of our reviews. We may be compensated by vendors who appear on this page through methods such as affiliate links or sponsored partnerships. How to enable copy and paste in VirtualBoxįrustrated that VirtualBox copy and paste isn't working out of the box? Learn how to enable this feature, and work with your VMs more efficiently.

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