Unable to copy and paste between the host and a Windows VM on Proxmox VE 8.4.0

JAOCHIM

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Hello,
I'm unable to copy and paste between my host machine and a Windows virtual machine (with GUI) on Proxmox VE 8.4.0. I'm accessing the interface via Firefox and using the SPICE console.
Does anyone have a solution or a simple alternative to transfer text between the host and the VM?
Thanks!
 
If you really use SPICE, you would not use Firefox to view, only to download the file for virt-viewer, is that the case? If not, copy & paste cannot work via SPICE. Have you installed the spice tools in Windows?

noVNC does support copy & paste of text from/to windows with clipboard option.

Please post the VM config (text or screenshot), so that we can see what you actually have configured.
 
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