Old thread but for anyone still fighting with this I created a little autohotkey v2 script that essentially simulates the keypresses of what's in the clipboard effectively automating typing the content into the VM for you. Been working great for this. I have the hotkey bound to ctrl+alt+v but you can set it to whatever you like by altering the first line. In autohotkey script ^ is ctrl, ! is alt, + is shift, and # is the win key.
Code:
^!v:: { ; Ctrl+Alt+V will trigger this script
text := A_Clipboard
if (text == "") {
MsgBox "Clipboard is empty or not accessible."
} else {
text := StrReplace(text, "`r`n", "`n") ; Normalize line endings
Loop Parse, text
{
SendText(A_LoopField)
Sleep 10 ; Add a small delay between each keypress to avoid overwhelming the VM
}
}
}This also works decent. Type Clipboard in the MS Store: https://www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9P5R4JK7R8H5
Another one I find quite handy (not just limited to browsers but works in apps too) is ClickPaste: https://github.com/Collective-Software/ClickPaste
How I have got it working in Windows VM's and otherwise is as follows in just a couple steps.
Instantly copy and paste support works, even in a Win11 PE it works, so in less than the norm situations as well.
- select the VM while powered down > Hardware > Display, Advanced enabled. Set to VNC versus default.
- Power it up and install spice guest tools like from https://www.spice-space.org/download/windows/spice-guest-tools/spice-guest-tools-latest.exe
Instantly copy and paste support works, even in a Win11 PE it works, so in less than the norm situations as well.
Enable it in settings for your VM as I instructed in Step 1, then simply install it. I have only tested on Windows personally. But it likely would work the same way, but should work pretty much the same in the noVNC viewer as for working on a windows system.
Some steps for installing Spice Guest tools on Debian, that explain multiple methods.
https://medium.com/@max.kombarov/in...s-on-a-debian-based-system-in-vm-2bc66fc2d95b
AFAIK, those tools only help with the SPICE display. I cannot imagine how they should work with VNC.
Don't ask me HOW it works. Just that it does with the noVNC Proxmox uses. When installing it, and enabling options as I have cited, you can copy and paste into a Windows VM using the option in the noVNC pull out. I stumbled across it posted on some obscure blog back in '21 (offline now, I tried to find it), and have been using it since. So thought I'd put that knowledge out there where some may look most often.
I've been using it since at least a version 7 of proxmox, so not new, but certainly not documented enough.