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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]]
'''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