no bidirectional clipboard in windows 11 host / ubuntu 18.04 guest

[arfe]

Hi,

I can't remember when this stopped working, just recently upgraded virtualbox and the vbox guest additions, and now I realize this is not working:

• bidirectional clipboard

Guest Additions:

systemctl status vboxadd.service
● vboxadd.service
   Loaded: loaded (/opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-6.1.36/init/vboxadd; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (exited) since Fri 2022-07-22 14:47:29 -03; 37min ago
  Process: 643 ExecStart=/opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-6.1.36/init/vboxadd start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 643 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

jul 22 14:47:28 x1buntu vboxadd[643]: VirtualBox Guest Additions: Starting.
jul 22 14:47:28 x1buntu vboxadd[643]: VirtualBox Guest Additions: VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel modules 6.1.36
jul 22 14:47:28 x1buntu vboxadd[643]: r152435 are
jul 22 14:47:28 x1buntu vboxadd[643]: VirtualBox Guest Additions: already available for kernel 5.4.0-122-generic and
jul 22 14:47:28 x1buntu vboxadd[643]: do not require to be rebuilt.
jul 22 14:47:28 x1buntu useradd[924]: failed adding user 'vboxadd', data deleted
jul 22 14:47:28 x1buntu useradd[925]: failed adding user 'vboxadd', data deleted
jul 22 14:47:28 x1buntu vboxadd[643]: VirtualBox Guest Additions: Running kernel modules will not be replaced until
jul 22 14:47:28 x1buntu vboxadd[643]: the system is restarted
jul 22 14:47:29 x1buntu systemd[1]: Started vboxadd.service.

Guest OS:

lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS
Release:	18.04
Codename:	bionic

Host OS: Windows 11 Pro 21H2 (22000.795), x64

[arfe]

VBOX.log (host)

[galitsyn]

Hi arfe,

I do not spot anything suspicious in the log at first sight. Could you please tell what is the guest's Desktop Environment you are using?

If you terminate (in guest) "VBoxClient --clipboard" processes (should be 2 such processes running) and start in terminal:

VBoxClient --clibpoard -f -vvv

..what is the output? Any new log messages in this output if you try to copy/paste between host and guest?