Sometimes when we work with virtual machines on our desktop computer we want to copy/paste some commands to the virtual machine terminal. And this sometimes is kind of tricky... I suffered it specially using VirtualBox and Linux based operating systems.
Therefore a workaround can be as I suggest here.
Set up SSH on our virtual machines. For this just on your virtual machine run command to
install OpenSSH:
sudo apt-get install openssh-server
Afterwards from your favourite SSH client (here we use PuTTY) you just connect to the IP of your virtual machine and thats it.