From 4005a5fafe1ccc585e97d938f1992220974d00ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Markus Frank Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2023 13:39:58 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] add VNC clipboard documentation Signed-off-by: Markus Frank Reviewed-by: Dominik Csapak Tested-by: Dominik Csapak --- qm.adoc | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) diff --git a/qm.adoc b/qm.adoc index 62a3354..fa70d55 100644 --- a/qm.adoc +++ b/qm.adoc @@ -817,6 +817,24 @@ Selecting `serialX` as display 'type' disables the VGA output, and redirects the Web Console to the selected serial port. A configured display 'memory' setting will be ignored in that case. +.VNC clipboard +You can enable the VNC clipboard by setting `clipboard` to `vnc`. + +---- +# qm set -vga ,clipboard=vnc +---- + +In order to use the clipboard feature, you must first install the +SPICE guest tools. On Debian-based distributions, this can be achieved +by installing `spice-vdagent`. For other Operating Systems search for it +in the offical repositories or see: https://www.spice-space.org/download.html + +Once you have installed the spice guest tools, you can use the VNC clipboard +function (e.g. in the noVNC console panel). However, if you're using +SPICE, virtio or virgl, you'll need to choose which clipboard to use. +This is because the default *SPICE* clipboard will be replaced by the +*VNC* clipboard, if `clipboard` is set to `vnc`. + [[qm_usb_passthrough]] USB Passthrough ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~