Share clipboard cause host copy and paste stuck

[maxchen]

Guest XP: Shared Clipboard is set to bidirectional

After a while (or one or more hour), the copy and paste in host is not stable. If you select some text in google Chrome and copy, the page of Chrome suspended, even crash whole chrome.

when shutdown the guest, end program dialog: VBoxSharedClipboardClass

If the guest XP is shutdown, host clipboard works fluently.

If the disable the Shared Clipboard of guest, host clipboard works great.

Thus, I suppose that the problem is in the guest addition of virtualbox.

[maxchen]

shutting down the guest, dialog

[Michael Thayer]

Please attach a log file as requested in the new ticket instructions<1>. You may be able to find out more about this problem following the guide to investigating Linux host clipboard problems in the technical documentation<2>.

1. https://www.virtualbox.org/newticket
2. https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/X11Clipboard

[maxchen]

export VBOX_RELEASE_LOG=+shared_clipboard.e.l.f

export VBOX_RELEASE_LOG_DEST="dir=/2T/smb/-test"

I update the VBox.log and uploaded.

I copy in the guest: It is unclear how much the behaviour of major market participants, such as institutional investors and delegated money managers, is related to consumption. and find that the host's clipboard is stuck, when I paste it in gedit in host Ubuntu 16.04.1.

[maxchen]

update VBox.log

in guest when copying needed for equilibrium-based pricing models , the host totally stalled (clipboard). nothing paste to host gedit for 3 more minutes.

in comment 2: the host clipboard restore in about half a minute, and the text is pasted into gedit.

[Michael Thayer]

Looked at VBox.log. The application on the guest seems to be refusing to answer when asked for the clipboard contents. I can't say for sure from the log file if it is the guest application or the guest clipboard component causing the problem (or if they just don't like each other).

[Michael Thayer]

Please be aware that the Windows XP clipboard monitoring capabilities are still the ones inherited from Windows 3.x and broken in ways that we can't do anything about, which may (or may not) be related to this problem. They tend to cause problems as soon as more than one application (in this case this would be guest applications of course) tries to monitor the clipboard, and clipboard pass-through of course also lets problematic guest applications affect the host clipboard.

Microsoft fixed clipboard monitoring with Windows Vista.