remote admin from chromebook

[nabbyBlue]

Hi I am trying to find what to use to adminster the vm's on my proxmox setup that will give me clipboard access. I tried the web GUI and its great but it does not give clipboard access to noVNC. as a bit of a linux noob being able to paste commands and strong passwords is a must.

I tried the spice addons and i had the panel appear on noVNC but after pasting text into it. it doesn't actually pste it into the consol. I cant believe such a widely used simple functionality is missing.


thanks in advance

 

[BobhWasatch]

There is an ssh extension for Chrome. It supports the clipboard.

 

[leesteken]

Did you install spice-vdagent inside the VM: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/t...-already-requested-unsure.146536/#post-663579

 

[leesteken]

Here is another thread about it: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/remote-administration-via-chromebook.147281/

 

[UdoB]

but it does not give clipboard access to noVNC.

Here: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/QEMU/KVM_Virtual_Machines you can find

"

VNC clipboard​

You can enable the VNC clipboard by setting clipboard to vnc.
...
"

Give it a try...

 

[gfngfn256]

All of the above are good advice. But maybe you want to try to use SSH with the putty application. You'll have full native clipboard use out of the box. I find it easiest to use, & I believe its a great learning experience for any newbie. With Proxmox/Linux you have to come to terms with the CLI in the end- so why not dive in now?

 

[nabbyBlue]

Hi thanks for replies I already had spice-vdagent installed it produced a panel in the noVNC options at the side. I pasted some text there and waited. Nothing happened.

I did notice the cursor change speed slightly (or imagined it) but no text was transfered to the vm. I also tried various keyboard shortcuts with the text in the panel still nothing.

I did also spend a painful amount of time googling and reading replies to this same query prior to posting here.

I am without doubt a linux noob but I am in no way noob when it comes to using Google to solve problems.

 

[nabbyBlue]

My experience of Linux thus far is one of trying to do something. encountering a problem, trying numerous solutions of which each throw up another issue. Its painful to say the least.

Just installed Putty on the Chromebook. opened it up typed in the IP address click connect and the window closes nothing happens, rebooted & Tried again with logging enabled and tried again. Still closes. Look for logs - No log created. Its just amazing.

I only arrived at the clipboard issue from another problem. Originally I installed FHEM in an LXC container all working but my CUL device remains disconnected tried all the usb related fixes forwarding the device to the container, changed the container to privileged still nothing. In the end I thought maybe its because its in a container.

Trying to eliminate this as the issue i start down the route of creating the same but as Debian/FHEM VM with the same process using the same how to. Then I arrived at the clipboard issue.

I guess no pain no gain. Some gain would be nice.

 

[leesteken]

I already had spice-vdagent installed it produced a panel in the noVNC options at the side. I pasted some text there and waited. Nothing happened.

I did notice the cursor change speed slightly (or imagined it) but no text was transfered to the vm. I also tried various keyboard shortcuts with the text in the panel still nothing.

Hmm, I have a clone of the VM (with SPICE display) where copy&paste into the VM works fine with noVNC, but the original VM does not work (like yours). Sometimes where it does not work, I restart spice-vdagent.service but that did not fix it. I don't know how to fix this (as I always use remote-viewer and SPICE).

 

[nabbyBlue]

i did notice a post on here somewhere. If i interpreted it correctly it implied that it works with a vm that has a desktop environment. My vm has only terminal. That is where i am trying to paste. Kinda gave up on it on that basis. happy to be corrected though. Ultimately I would like to do everything in the Web GUI as it was intended.

 

[leesteken]

i did notice a post on here somewhere. If i interpreted it correctly it implied that it works with a vm that has a desktop environment. My vm has only terminal. That is where i am trying to paste. Kinda gave up on it on that basis. happy to be corrected though.

In my experience SSH works much better when working without a desktop environment and you can choose your favorite client yourself. Or setup a virtual serial terminal and use xterm.js.

Ultimately I would like to do everything in the Web GUI as it was intended.

Intended by who and why?