CentOS - Dec 2017 - Does anyone know how to get clipboard and mouse integration in Centos vm?

Hi,

I am running a Centos 7 vm under FreeBSD, and it works very well now, 
with KDE installed from DVD iso.

But there's a couple of things missing, which happens only with Centos 
vm (Virtualbox):

1) Despite clipboard sharing enabled, copy-paste just does not work 
between host and guest

2) Mouse integration does not work. So I have to repeatedly capture 
mouse manually both in the host and in the guest.

If anyone could provide me tips how to tweak the above, it shall help me 
a lot.

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Thanks & Regards,
Manish Jain

W dniu 20.12.2017 o?12:22, Manish Jain pisze:
> Hi,
>
> I am running a Centos 7 vm under FreeBSD, and it works very well now,
> with KDE installed from DVD iso.
>
> But there's a couple of things missing, which happens only with Centos
> vm (Virtualbox):
>
> 1) Despite clipboard sharing enabled, copy-paste just does not work
> between host and guest
>
> 2) Mouse integration does not work. So I have to repeatedly capture
> mouse manually both in the host and in the guest.
>
> If anyone could provide me tips how to tweak the above, it shall help me
> a lot.
Hello,
 ? do you have VBox guest additions installed in your Centos VM ?

https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html

BR,
Wojtek

On 12/20/17 17:41, Wojciech ?ysiak wrote:
> W dniu 20.12.2017 o?12:22, Manish Jain pisze:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am running a Centos 7 vm under FreeBSD, and it works very well now,
>> with KDE installed from DVD iso.
>>
>> But there's a couple of things missing, which happens only with
Centos
>> vm (Virtualbox):
>>
>> 1) Despite clipboard sharing enabled, copy-paste just does not work
>> between host and guest
>>
>> 2) Mouse integration does not work. So I have to repeatedly capture
>> mouse manually both in the host and in the guest.
>>
>> If anyone could provide me tips how to tweak the above, it shall help
me
>> a lot.
> Hello,
>  ? do you have VBox guest additions installed in your Centos VM ?
> 
> https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html
> 
> BR,
> Wojtek
Hi Wojtek,

Thanks for replying.

Yes, I figured that was the issue:

yum update
yum install dkms
yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
yum install kernel-devel

I then mounted the VB Guest Additions iso, ran VB's Linux script (as 
root) and now upon reboot clipboard integrates very nicely.

The mouse integration is simple - does not even need VB GA - just change 
the mouse type in VB settings from PS/2 to USB tablet.

Now everything works very nicely indeed.

Regards
Manish Jain