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foxlet
copy paste do not work
I did a fresh install of Catalina on my XPS15 running Fedora 33. When I open Virtual Machane Manager (VMM), I cannot copy/paste anything from my host to guest and vise-versa. I also must use left-ctl+alt to exit the MacOS guest. Anything I need to install on host or guest? Thanks...
To anyone else stumbling on this: the way I've done this with Linux as the guest is to use SPICE on your host and an application called spice-vdagent on your guest. Sadly, Homebrew (the MacOS package manager) doesn't carry spice-vdagent. (If you think about it, this makes a lot of sense, because Apple would really rather you not run MacOS VMs).
You can try installing the package from source, but I didn't get very far. (Source is available here: https://www.spice-space.org/download.html). And this is the Arch Wiki guide I used with Linux guests previously: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/QEMU#SPICE. The configuration will be the same on your host (as long as you can get vdagent to compile).
This is Alsa, which is the dependency that caused my vdagent build to fail: https://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Main_Page. If you can compile a working version from scratch (or otherwise), you might be able to get somewhere useful.
If you can get an alternative package manager running (i.e apt, pacman or some similar linux system), it's vaguely possible that you can get spice-vdagent on your guest device. It probably wouldn't work, because using linux packages on MacOS is kind of like shrugging and saying "Unix is Unix." But if you have apt or a similar manager, it would not take long to test, and I'd be very curious to know :).
how such basic elements fail on macs? Next thing you know colour blue requires extra drivers
you can use anydesk which doesnt solve the problem but still allows copy paste
