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When I recently updated to the latest VirtualBox 6.1.32 and installed the latest Xubuntu, I decided to revisit this bug once more.

Several people replied because others are seeing similar problems. I first noticed this issue ~14 months ago, when my Win 10 box was running VirtualBox 6.1.16, and made this forum posting. I have been running both TextPad and VirtualBox for many years, and this copy paste bug did NOT exist before ~14 months ago. If, instead, I copy from, say, Notepad++ and paste into Xubuntu, every copy and paste works just fine. I have only seen this issue between TextPad and Xubuntu. But that 2nd copy is seen by other Windows applications: I can do a paste into many other applications and they see the 2nd copied text just fine.Īnother weird fact: if I then copy something from Xubuntu and paste it back into TextPad, and then do a copy of something new in TextPad (besides what I copied before), then it now successfully pastes into Xubuntu. It is as if the 2nd copy is not seen by Xubuntu. But if I try it a second time (copy some different text in TextPad, try to paste it into Xubuntu), what gets pasted is the contents of the first copy from TextPad. I have observed a bizarre shared clipboard problem: if I copy something from TextPad (a Windows text editor program, running on the host OS) and paste it into the guest (Xubuntu) OS, the first time I do this the paste works. Running that VirtualBox, I have created a virtual machine and installed the latest Xubuntu 21.10 as a guest OS. On that host OS, I have recently installed the latest VirtualBox 6.1.32 and its Guest Additions. It is a universal way to enable a shared folder and it should work for all distributions.I am running the latest (fully patched) version of Windows 10 For Workstations as my host OS.

If you use some other distributions as a guest, look at the instructions for Debian. So, I will show you the settings for Arch Linux, Linux Mint and Debian as guest systems. In this tutorial, my host system is Arch Linux, but the host system does not matter in this case because we will do all the setting in the guest systems.

Change the user permission for the shared folder.

Install guest additions for your guest system.

There are several essential steps you need to follow, to enable a shared folder between the real machine (host) and the virtual machine (guest): I will also show a universal way that should work for any Linux guest distribution. So, I will show you how to enable a shared folder in Virtualbox for Debian, Linux Mint/Ubuntu, and Arch Linux as guest systems. However, configuring the Virtualbox to share files between your main system and the system you installed in a VirtualBox is not trivial. VirtualBox is a very useful tool to install operating systems inside the main system.