Whonix 18 - Wayland based - VirtualBox - Clipboard Sharing - Broken

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An idea for a workaround was shared here, this would basically implement clipboard sharing via the shared folder:

What makes Wayland more secure?

It is very unfortunate, and we put quite a bit of work into seeing if we could get a workaround working before we gave up and accepted that the feature would be broken. For KVM, we actually found a partial workaround (I think you probably saw the thread where I linked to it), but for VirtualBox, it’s just totally broken thanks to Oracle’s code not doing what it’s supposed to. As a workaround, you could possibly use scripts that will dump the Wayland clipboard contents to a file in the shared f…