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No copy/paste with VNC display with Windows guest
There is no copy/paste functionality between a Windows guest and the VNC client. This is a significant usability problem.
One work-around is to run VNC inside of the guest. But that appears to have more overhead than qemu's VNC display.
Obviously, qemu's VNC display is just a display device and knows absolutely nothing about the Windows clipboard. Thus, to interface with the guest's clipboard would require a helper app running in the guest that can hook into qemu. This would probably be the best solution.
There are probably not a lot of qemu developers interested in trying to write the helper app. Not exactly an interesting job. But since it is a significant usability problem, and many users would see this as a major oversight, I suggest leaving this bug open long-term as a hint so that some volunteer later looking for something to do might take pity on everyone and write this helper app.
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