From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from firstgate.proxmox.com (firstgate.proxmox.com [212.224.123.68]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.proxmox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 48EB9AB35 for ; Fri, 8 Sep 2023 12:47:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: from firstgate.proxmox.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by firstgate.proxmox.com (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 18741104BB for ; Fri, 8 Sep 2023 12:47:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: from proxmox-new.maurer-it.com (proxmox-new.maurer-it.com [94.136.29.106]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by firstgate.proxmox.com (Proxmox) with ESMTPS for ; Fri, 8 Sep 2023 12:47:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: from proxmox-new.maurer-it.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by proxmox-new.maurer-it.com (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 9973043576 for ; Fri, 8 Sep 2023 12:47:23 +0200 (CEST) From: Markus Frank To: pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2023 12:46:49 +0200 Message-Id: <20230908104649.123330-7-m.frank@proxmox.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.39.2 In-Reply-To: <20230908104649.123330-1-m.frank@proxmox.com> References: <20230908104649.123330-1-m.frank@proxmox.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-SPAM-LEVEL: Spam detection results: 0 AWL -0.048 Adjusted score from AWL reputation of From: address BAYES_00 -1.9 Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% DMARC_MISSING 0.1 Missing DMARC policy KAM_DMARC_STATUS 0.01 Test Rule for DKIM or SPF Failure with Strict Alignment SPF_HELO_NONE 0.001 SPF: HELO does not publish an SPF Record SPF_PASS -0.001 SPF: sender matches SPF record Subject: [pve-devel] [PATCH docs v11 6/6] add VNC clipboard documentation X-BeenThere: pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Proxmox VE development discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2023 10:47:55 -0000 Signed-off-by: Markus Frank --- qm.adoc | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) diff --git a/qm.adoc b/qm.adoc index b3c3034..43c1da4 100644 --- a/qm.adoc +++ b/qm.adoc @@ -776,6 +776,24 @@ 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- 2.39.2