Copy and paste in virtual console with keyboard play

A method comprising:

• establishing, by a management controller that is configured to provide out-of-band management of a host system of an information handling system, a virtual console session between the host system and a remote terminal;
• implementing, by the management controller, a virtual keyboard coupled to a keyboard interface of the host system;
• in response to a command from the remote terminal to send data from the remote terminal to the host system, the management controller receiving the data from the remote terminal, wherein the command includes a paste command associated with the data, and wherein the data was previously copied into a clipboard buffer at the remote terminal;
• and
• the management controller transmitting the data via the virtual keyboard to the host system character-by-character via the keyboard interface of the host system, wherein the virtual keyboard allows agentless data transmission from the management controller to the host system without execution of a software agent on the host system, wherein the host system is configured to receive the data in a pre-boot environment and/or while no user is logged into an operating system (OS) of the host system.

An article of manufacture comprising a non-transitory, computer-readable medium having computer-executable code thereon that is executable by a processor of a management controller of an information handling system for:

• establishing a virtual console session between a host system of the information handling system and a remote terminal;
• implementing a virtual keyboard coupled to a keyboard interface of the host system;
• in response to a command from the remote terminal to send data from the remote terminal to the host system, receiving the data from the remote terminal, wherein the command includes a paste command associated with the data, and wherein the data was previously copied into a clipboard buffer at the remote terminal;
• and
• transmitting the data via the virtual keyboard to the host system character-by-character via the keyboard interface of the host system, wherein the virtual keyboard allows agentless data transmission from the management controller to the host system without execution of a software agent on the host system, wherein the host system is configured to receive the data in a pre-boot environment and/or while no user is logged into an operating system (OS) of the host system;
• wherein the management controller is configured to provide out-of-band management of the host system.