How to Transfer Image Clipboard Between Host and VirtualBox Guest

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Is there anyway to transfer clipboard content of image format, JPEG, bitmap or whatever, to or from the VirtualBox guest instances?

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VirtualBox support for clipboard sharing is indeed still lacking a formal support for graphics. Officially it only supports text at this time. But if you are under a Windows host, and only under a Windows host, it will support images.

See: Shared Clipboard and Graphics

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