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Cheeto

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Registered: 2022-09-11

Posts: 64

Copy/paste to windows guest not working

Hope this is the correct subforum.

Host is arch/gnome/x11. Guest is win11 with nvidia dGPU passed through.

So far everything works brilliantly, except copy/paste between the host and guest.

Things I've tried:
- installed spice guest tools latest on the guest
- confirmed there is a spice channel with the following settings:

Device type: spicevmc
Target type: virtio
Target name: com.redhat.spice.0

(the actual XML for it:)

<channel type="spicevmc">
  <target type="virtio" name="com.redhat.spice.0"/>
  <address type="virtio-serial" controller="0" bus="0" port="1"/>
</channel>

- running the VM with and without passing through the dGPU
  - in both of those scenarios I've tried video set to QXL, virtio, and none
- reinstalled spice guest tools latest and rebooted the host machine

I've reviewed the arch wiki at these links:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KVM
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/QEMU
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/QEMU#Copy_and_paste
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/QEMU#SPICE
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Virt-Manager

I've also checked 5-10 related threads from google. They all generally say to do what I've already done. Some mention the QXL video, which makes me concerned that the nvidia passthrough may be an issue, but as I've stated I did try after removing the passthrough and it hasn't helped, which is weird because I've never had this issue on past setups--but I've never had a machine with a dGPU to pass through until now...