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A per-session guest agent is needed to listen X11 PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD selections [0]. This agent will register to the GTK events related to those X11 selections and relay them to the host front-end using JSON. This is for the guest->host direction. The other direction will be supported as well. | A per-session guest agent is needed to listen X11 PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD selections [0]. This agent will register to the GTK events related to those X11 selections and relay them to the host front-end using JSON. This is for the guest->host direction. The other direction will be supported as well. | ||
A qemu-ga software needs to installed in the guest system for this to work. Whenever a new session is initiated for a guest, a session specific process would start in the guest, which will talk to the qemu-ga service via a unix socket which in turn will communicate with the hypervisor on the host via a virtio-serial socket to transfer the content between the guest and the host. | |||
== Owner == | == Owner == | ||
'''Name:''' [[User:Ozancaglayan|Ozan Çağlayan]] | |||
* '''Email:''' ozancag@gmail.com | * '''Email:''' ozancag@gmail.com | ||
'''Name''': [[User:Pallav|Pallav Agrawal]] | |||
* '''Email:''' agr.pallav@gmail.com | |||
== References == | == References == | ||
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== Status == | == Status == | ||
* Ozan | |||
A preliminary prototype is available at: | A preliminary prototype is available at: | ||
https://github.com/ozancaglayan/qemu-copy-paste | https://github.com/ozancaglayan/qemu-copy-paste | ||
* Pallav | |||
Track my progress [https://github.com/agrpallav/qemu-copypaste here] | |||
Revision as of 05:02, 21 June 2013
Summary
Users have come to expect copy-paste between host and guest to work. This is also called clipboard sharing and makes it easier to work with graphical guests.
Details
A per-session guest agent is needed to listen X11 PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD selections [0]. This agent will register to the GTK events related to those X11 selections and relay them to the host front-end using JSON. This is for the guest->host direction. The other direction will be supported as well. A qemu-ga software needs to installed in the guest system for this to work. Whenever a new session is initiated for a guest, a session specific process would start in the guest, which will talk to the qemu-ga service via a unix socket which in turn will communicate with the hypervisor on the host via a virtio-serial socket to transfer the content between the guest and the host.
Owner
Name: Ozan Çağlayan
- Email: ozancag@gmail.com
Name: Pallav Agrawal
- Email: agr.pallav@gmail.com
References
[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_selection
Status
- Ozan
A preliminary prototype is available at: https://github.com/ozancaglayan/qemu-copy-paste
- Pallav
Track my progress here