In this post, I offer a step-by-step tutorial showing how to use the VirtualBox graphical user interface to set up a network of six devices: three routers and three PCs. VirtualBox works on the major computing platforms: Windows, MacOS, and Linux. In addition to creating and managing individual virtual machines, VirtualBox can connect virtual machines together to emulate a network of computers and network appliances such as routers or servers. I am attaching all the files associated with my last forum posting.VirtualBox is an open-source virtual machine manager and hypervisor that may also be used as a network emulator. He suggested that I add a bug report, so here I am. (His suggestions about OneDrive and ScanSnap I have a very hard time imagining how they could be the culprit.) I made this recent posting to that forum thread: įorum user fth0, a very helpful responder, looked at my log files and did not seem to see any issue. 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. I am running the latest (fully patched) version of Windows 10 For Workstations as my host OS.

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