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Bug 2057768 - [RFE]Support copy/paste in the VNC console in libvirt
Summary: [RFE]Support copy/paste in the VNC console in libvirt
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Classification: Red Hat
Component: libvirt
Version: 9.0
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
: ---
Assignee: Jonathon Jongsma
QA Contact: zhentang
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: 2060724 2064602
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2022-02-24 03:55 UTC by yafu
Modified: 2022-11-15 10:38 UTC (History)
13 users (show)

Fixed In Version: libvirt-8.4.0-1.el9
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Last Closed: 2022-11-15 10:03:40 UTC
Type: Feature Request
Target Upstream Version: 8.4.0
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Red Hat Issue Tracker RHELPLAN-113374 0 None None None 2022-02-24 03:59:09 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2022:8003 0 None None None 2022-11-15 10:04:28 UTC

Description yafu 2022-02-24 03:55:24 UTC 
Description of problem:
qemu-kvm has supported copy/paste in the vnc console since qemu-kvm 6.2.0, see:
Bug 1874926 - [RFE] copy/paste support in qemu VNC console

Libvirt should also support this feature.
Comment 2 Jonathon Jongsma 2022-05-18 19:40:06 UTC 
Support for this feature has been merged upstream and will be included in libvirt 8.4.0

The configuration for this is a bit different than for spice. The following configuration snippet can be used to enable copypaste with a vnc guest (provided that the vnc client supports copy/paste properly):

      <channel type='qemu-vdagent'>
        <target type='virtio' name='com.redhat.spice.0'/>
        <source>
          <clipboard copypaste='yes'/>
        </source>
      </channel>

Nothing needs to be added to the <graphics> section.
Comment 5 zhentang 2022-06-20 03:03:45 UTC 
verified on libvirt-8.4.0-2.el9

tested with tigervnc, copy/paste between host and guest works crectly

test steps:
1. start guest with qemu-vdagent
# virsh dumpxml rhel9-vnc
...
<channel type='qemu-vdagent'>
      <source>
        <clipboard copypaste='yes'/>
        <mouse mode='client'/>
      </source>
      <target type='virtio' name='com.redhat.spice.0' state='connected'/>
      <alias name='channel1'/>
      <address type='virtio-serial' controller='0' bus='0' port='2'/>
    </channel>
...
2. check qemu cmdline
# ps aux|grep vdagent
-chardev qemu-vdagent,id=charchannel1,name=vdagent,clipboard=on,mouse=on
3. connect to vm through tigervnc and do some copy/paste
Comment 6 smitterl 2022-10-26 07:52:22 UTC 
Note for visibility and automation, vdagent is not supported on Big Endian. Starting the VM will result in error

error: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: 2022-10-26T07:49:49.782601Z qemu-kvm: -chardev qemu-vdagent,id=charchannel1,name=vdagent,clipboard=on,mouse=on: vdagent is not supported on bigendian hosts
Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2022-11-15 10:03:40 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (Low: libvirt security, bug fix, and enhancement update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:8003
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