How to enable Shared Clipboard & Drag-and-Drop features inside VirtualBox with Whonix-LXQt-18.0.8.7 ?

Whonix 18.2.1.7 (internal developers-only release) comes with virtualbox-guest-additions-iso installed by default (sourced from Oracle virtualbox.org, installed using vbox-guest-installer (during vm-config-dist.postinst).

Systemd user unit vboxclient-wayland.service executes /usr/bin/VBoxClient --foreground --wayland.

On a Windows test machine with a Kicksecure or Whonix guest:

  • VM to host copy/paste: Functional.
  • Host to VM copy/paste: Functional.

Using VirtualBox host software version 7.2.12.

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