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The blog deals mostly with problems and their respective solutions that I find on day to day basis at my current workplace. Most of the issues so far deal specifically with Virtualization (mostly Microsoft related), 64-bit migration, and Windows 2003 issues. Many of the problems I have faced in various projects have been solved by reading someone else's blog. This is an effort to pay back and hopefully someone will be able to solve some of their problems by reading something within these pages.

Copy and Paste from Host VM to Guest VM (and vice-versa)

I have to admit I was a bit shocked when I tried to copy and paste text between VMs using Virtual Server.  The clipboard was not copied at all and there was no easy way to transfer text back and forth.  I tried installing the Virtual PC Additions and still no luck.  I could not believe they left out a feature like this one out - I don't know if enabling this is trivial using some super secret setting, but until then, here is a workaround.

It is actually quite simple, and it was Stephen who hinted me on this while I was ranting.  On the host machine, enable Remote Desktop Connections and connect using a RDC client.  You will be connecting to the VM just like any other mahine, and RDC supports copying and pasting of text back and forth.

Not the best solution, I know, but it gets the job done.  It is also worth noting that the same problem happens with VMWare's VM player.
Published Aug 11 2006, 07:08 PM by Csaborio
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