utmapp / utmapp/UTM

Spice guest for terminal based text copy and paste in linux

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Description

Use Case

Install ubuntu server as guest (no x-system), just for terminal scripting e.g. raspberry pie hardware flashing environment. I have a cheatsheet of command on my host. I want to pipe them into the command line on the guest. I should be able to: enable spice and have some ubuntu tools which install a character device which can be used on the command line in the guest operating system to redirect standard in and standard out too and from the spice-clipboard.

The workflow should be.
1. host: copy text to clipboards
2. guest: dev/cb > where clip is a command line character device to redirect text from spice clipboard to standard out
3. guest > dev/cb where clip is a command line character device to redirect text from standard ou to the clipboard
4. host: copy text from clipboard

Without this type of support it is really painful to run in a linux terminal as all commands need to be typed from scratch. At the moment there is a button on utm to install guest windows tools, but we need to add the ability to install guest linux terminal tools.

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