FreeRDP/FreeRDP — Issue #230: Clipboard Redirection VirtualBox Interference Bug
Author: awakecoding
Created: 2011-11-26 17:52:08+00:00
State: open

The VirtualBox clipboard integration with local guest virtual machines interferes with the FreeRDP clipboard direction plugin, making it unstable and unusable. There must be a way to avoid fighting with VirtualBox as to whom gets to manage the clipboard, so we must figure it out.

When connecting to a local virtual machine that has the guest additions installed, clipboard redirection will actually work *when the clipboard redirection plugin is not loaded*. This is obviously counter intuitive and defies logic, but we can only assume that the VirtualBox clipboard redirector somehow synchronizes the clipboard between the host and the guest, even if the guest virtual machine is accessed through FreeRDP.

It still needs to be determined if VirtualBox interferes with FreeRDP's clipboard redirection plugin only for local guest virtual machines, or if it interferes simply by being there in the first place, even if the connection is not made to a local virtual machine.