Clipboard bad replaces memory => fixed in next version

[talpa]

Clipboard in memory have problem. If I copy some string in winXP and then paste this value in ubuntu. Problem is that clipboard haven't correctly size, have size previous clipboard and part this value is paste too.

[Frank Mehnert]

Please could you describe the problem better:

• which host OS
• which guest OS
• what is the size of the clipboard?

[brettbender]

I have this issue, though I think it is a little trickier than "has size [of] previous clipboard".

VBox == 2.0.2 PUEL Host OS == Windows XP SP3 Guest OS == Ubuntu 8.04

Repro steps:

1. Guest -- file "clip-in", size 127 bytes, filled with "A"
2. Send to clipboard with: xclip -selection clip -i < clip-in
3. Host -- open Notepad, Edit => Paste, get 127 "A", good so far
4. Host -- select text in Notepad, Edit => Copy
5. Guest -- paste from clipboard with: xclip -selection clip -o > clip-out

Expected: contents of clip-out should be 127 "A", identical to clip-in Get instead: 768 bytes file, starting with the expected "A"s followed by junk

Size of output is proportional 6:1 to input -- when I send through 64 "A"s instead, I get 396 bytes out; using 255 "A"s results in 1542 bytes out.

[Michael Thayer]

Reproducible with VirtualBox SVN Head, host Kubuntu 8.04 AMD 64, guest Ubuntu 8.04.1 i386.

[Michael Thayer]

Reproduced and fixed for next version.