shared clipboard does not work with Wayland

[JoKalliauer]

On Fedora 35 host with Win10Guest the shared clipboard works with X11, but not with Wayland.

[galitsyn]

Hi JoKalliauer,

Shared Clipboard not yet supported on Wayland hosts and guests.

[galitsyn]

Hi JoKalliauer,

We just released VirtualBox 7.1.0. It has initial support for clipboard sharing with Gnome on Wayland guests. You will need to update both -- host part and Guest Additions to make it work. You can download it from here.

[Graham Perrin]

Confirmed working with Plasma in Kubuntu 25.04.

I used Synaptic – not the Devices menu – to install the image, then:

1. installed the additions
2. restarted the OS
3. used the Devices menu to upgrade the additions
4. in response to the prompt below, another restart of the OS.

Name: /usr/share/virtualbox/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso

Guest Additions Update failed: Files were installed, but kernel modules were not reloaded automatically. Please consider rebooting the guest.
Result Code:
VBOX_E_GSTCTL_GUEST_ERROR (0x80bb000f)
Component:
GuestSessionWrap
Interface:
IGuestSession {8b2b6773-8b5a-4cd2-95f8-38faf73913e1}

End result, in the guest:

grahamperrin@mowa219-gjp4-vm-ubuntu:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 25.04
Release:        25.04
Codename:       plucky
grahamperrin@mowa219-gjp4-vm-ubuntu:~$ apt list installed virtualbox-guest-additions-iso
virtualbox-guest-additions-iso/plucky,now 7.0.20-1 all [installed]
grahamperrin@mowa219-gjp4-vm-ubuntu:~$

• clipboard sharing works in both directions
• as expected, apt still shows 7.0.20-1 (not 7.1.⋯).

Host:

grahamperrin@mowa219-gjp4 ~> apt list --installed virtualbox-7.1
virtualbox-7.1/now 7.1.10-169112~Ubuntu~oracular amd64 [installed,local]
grahamperrin@mowa219-gjp4 ~> lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 25.04
Release:        25.04
Codename:       plucky
grahamperrin@mowa219-gjp4 ~> 

[Graham Perrin]

Focusing on the original report,

Guest type: Windows

… Win10Guest …

I do also have bidirectional sharing between the Kubuntu host and:

• a Windows 10 guest
• a Windows 11 guest.

JoKalliauer, would you like to close this report?

Thanks