Fun Hack: Copy commands to a local VM without clipboard

I was following an instruction to deploy an application on a Virtualbox VM and I wanted to execute the long commands. By default it’s not possible to copy those command into the VM. VirtualBox has a shared clipboard feature which I tried to get it working but it didn’t happen so I didn’t dig into it and I came up with a funny hack :D I sent the commands through a socket :)...

July 14, 2017 · 1 min · Mehdi Khoshnoodi