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Clipboard Sharing
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Summary
Copy-paste data between client & guest.
Specifically the types of data include:
- text
- images
Features are:
- support for arbitrary sized data.
- do not require large buffers in server (throttling in server between guest and client)
- translation between different client and guest semantics
The text will be passed as utf-8 between the server and the client. It will be the guest's agent responsibility to translate it to utf-8 from whatever internal representation is used (windows uses utf16).
Images will be basically passed as png. TOTHINK: other formats (e.g. jpeg)
Other types TOTHINK
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Owner
- Arnon Gilboa
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Current Status
- Targeted Release: 0.6.3
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TODO
- Windows guest agent:
- png support
- request queue
- prevent mouse blocking by clipboard - dedicated clipboard channel
- support multi-ports with multi-chunk data in parallel (currently only clipboard)
- clipboard disable
- support complete disable for security (libspice? currently clipboard-passthrough)
- configurable size limitation of clipboard data
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Basic flow
client-copy->guest-paste (for guest-copy->client-paste switch col 2 and 3)
| Net Data | client-os | spice-client | guest-agent | guest-os |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| small | -> cb changed | -> GRAB | -> I own cb | |
| small | <- cb request | <- REQUEST | <- cb requested | |
| small-large | -> cb contents | -> CONTENTS x | -> cb contents | |
| small | -> cb released | -> RELEASE | -> cb release |
