KVM Console Copy Past Functionality > copy text within console > to local clipboard

[DRossII]

The required feature described as a wish

Hello. It would be nice if console could copy text out of instance to local clipboard. We have had some requests for this, so figured I would suggest this feature enhancement. Thank you.

[boring-cyborg]

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[weizhouapache]

@DRossII
it is a good feature. have you investigated whether it is feasible and what changes are needed with libvirt and novnc ?

[NuxRo]

Hello,

IMHO the console is for emergency access, not for day2day activities.
SSH or RDP should be used where this is a solved problem.
In fact two-way clipboard has some security implications that could arise.

In the rare occasions where you need to copy FROM the VM's console, then it could be handy to install a browser OCR extension and read text out that way.

HTH