tl;dr the command-line solution to run inside your Linux VM:

sudo pkill -fx "/usr/bin/VBoxClient --clipboard" && /usr/bin/VBoxClient --clipboard

Background / Details / Synopsis

Now and again, copy & paste functionality can break between a Microsoft Windows host and its Linux guest VM (Virtual Machine) when using Oracle’s VirtualBox.

Symptoms include not only the inability to paste text, but also application freezes/lockups. For example, we found that Google Chrome on Windows became unresponsive for ~1 minute, when trying to paste text that was copied from our Linux VM, but would return to normal after.

A solution that works for us is to restart the VirtualBox Guest Additions inside the Linux VM, discussed here: How to restart Guest Additions?
https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=99192#p483083

• NoxPlayer: https://www.bignox.com/
• BlueStacks: https://www.bluestacks.com/

We have been utilizing VirtualBox for many years, and are huge fans of the capabilities, flexibility, and versatility that it brings to our clients as well as our own operations.

We’ve had nothing but success when migrating bare-metal Microsoft Windows environments to VirtualBox virtual machines, and thought it would be nice to share some of our notes and experiences.

References & Links

• (VirtualBox) CloneVDI tool – Discussion & Support
• (Microsoft) Disk2vhd utility now available for download
• (VirtualBox) Booting from a DD image
• (Wikipedia) dd (Unix)
• Partimage Homepage

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