Call to host's cygwin clipboard from headless virtualbox guest
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I'm struggling with getting access to cygwin /dev/clipboard device uder arch linux headless guest via VirtualBox. I tried to mount cygwin root directory as a shared folder in guest, but for some reason VBox mounts only files that are 777 in /dev directory. I tried to change permission to /dev/clipboard, but for some reason I can not change permissions on files under Cygwin (known issue from what I found), although my drive fs is NTFS and I tried to delete noacl from Cygwin's /etc/fstab - not fixed issue.
So, summarizing, my question is:
I wish to perform printf 'to clipboard' > ~/host/dev/clipboard, but there's no such file in /host/dev directory
Solution is one of those:
Change permission to
/dev/clipboardon host, but can not do it for some reason.Force VirtualBox to mount all files in
/devdirectory (dont know how to do that and why isnt it mounted in first place).Create file
/tmp/clip, useprintf 'to clipboard' > ~/host/tmp/clipand somehow sync it with/dev/clipboard, for example in loop each n millisecond checking which is newer and either update/dev/clipboardor not. If there's easy bash command for such two files sync - please give example.
virtualbox cygwin
asked Oct 29 '17 at 18:43
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I'm struggling with getting access to cygwin /dev/clipboard device uder arch linux headless guest via VirtualBox. I tried to mount cygwin root directory as a shared folder in guest, but for some reason VBox mounts only files that are 777 in /dev directory. I tried to change permission to /dev/clipboard, but for some reason I can not change permissions on files under Cygwin (known issue from what I found), although my drive fs is NTFS and I tried to delete noacl from Cygwin's /etc/fstab - not fixed issue.
So, summarizing, my question is:
I wish to perform printf 'to clipboard' > ~/host/dev/clipboard, but there's no such file in /host/dev directory
Solution is one of those:
Change permission to
/dev/clipboardon host, but can not do it for some reason.Force VirtualBox to mount all files in
/devdirectory (dont know how to do that and why isnt it mounted in first place).Create file
/tmp/clip, useprintf 'to clipboard' > ~/host/tmp/clipand somehow sync it with/dev/clipboard, for example in loop each n millisecond checking which is newer and either update/dev/clipboardor not. If there's easy bash command for such two files sync - please give example.
virtualbox cygwin
asked Oct 29 '17 at 18:43
sandric
1365
add a comment |Â
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0
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up vote
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I'm struggling with getting access to cygwin /dev/clipboard device uder arch linux headless guest via VirtualBox. I tried to mount cygwin root directory as a shared folder in guest, but for some reason VBox mounts only files that are 777 in /dev directory. I tried to change permission to /dev/clipboard, but for some reason I can not change permissions on files under Cygwin (known issue from what I found), although my drive fs is NTFS and I tried to delete noacl from Cygwin's /etc/fstab - not fixed issue.
So, summarizing, my question is:
I wish to perform printf 'to clipboard' > ~/host/dev/clipboard, but there's no such file in /host/dev directory
Solution is one of those:
Change permission to
/dev/clipboardon host, but can not do it for some reason.Force VirtualBox to mount all files in
/devdirectory (dont know how to do that and why isnt it mounted in first place).Create file
/tmp/clip, useprintf 'to clipboard' > ~/host/tmp/clipand somehow sync it with/dev/clipboard, for example in loop each n millisecond checking which is newer and either update/dev/clipboardor not. If there's easy bash command for such two files sync - please give example.
virtualbox cygwin
asked Oct 29 '17 at 18:43
sandric
1365
I'm struggling with getting access to cygwin /dev/clipboard device uder arch linux headless guest via VirtualBox. I tried to mount cygwin root directory as a shared folder in guest, but for some reason VBox mounts only files that are 777 in /dev directory. I tried to change permission to /dev/clipboard, but for some reason I can not change permissions on files under Cygwin (known issue from what I found), although my drive fs is NTFS and I tried to delete noacl from Cygwin's /etc/fstab - not fixed issue.
So, summarizing, my question is:
I wish to perform printf 'to clipboard' > ~/host/dev/clipboard, but there's no such file in /host/dev directory
Solution is one of those:
Change permission to
/dev/clipboardon host, but can not do it for some reason.Force VirtualBox to mount all files in
/devdirectory (dont know how to do that and why isnt it mounted in first place).Create file
/tmp/clip, useprintf 'to clipboard' > ~/host/tmp/clipand somehow sync it with/dev/clipboard, for example in loop each n millisecond checking which is newer and either update/dev/clipboardor not. If there's easy bash command for such two files sync - please give example.
virtualbox cygwin
asked Oct 29 '17 at 18:43
sandric
1365
asked Oct 29 '17 at 18:43
sandric
1365
asked Oct 29 '17 at 18:43
sandric
1365
asked Oct 29 '17 at 18:43
sandric
1365
1365
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