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Copy/paste to Micro Core as a Virtualbox guest?

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qopit:
Does anyone know of a way to be able to copy-paste from the host machine to a Micro Core guest?  I've got a standard set of things to do (like adding CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, etc) and would reeeeeally like to be able to just paste them into the machine, rather than typing them all the time.

I tried installing the virtualbox additions, but it did not work (nor did I really expect it to).

The host is VirtualBox 4.0.12 running on Ubuntu.

Rich:
Hi qopit
Try this:
Highlight the text you want to copy by holding down the left mouse button and dragging the mouse.
Then go to the destination window, left click to give it focus, then click the middle mouse button.

qopit:

--- Quote from: Rich on August 28, 2011, 12:09:57 PM ---Highlight the text you want to copy by holding down the left mouse button and dragging the mouse.
Then go to the destination window, left click to give it focus, then click the middle mouse button.

--- End quote ---

Thanks for the suggestion, but that does not work.  When the guest window gets focus, mouse events are totally lost.

curaga:
You always have networking ;)

nc -l -p 1234 > /tmp/text # on the guest

nc ip.of.guest 1234 << "EOF" # on the host
CFLAGS=""
...
EOF
# press ctrl-c

qopit:
Yeah - I wondered if I would have to resort to copying a script over the network.  Thanks for the nc suggestion.

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