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How to copy and paste in alpine linux VM?

I recently installed an alpine-3.17 VM using virtualbox 7. I also installed the guest additions and are able to map shared folders. But it seems that I cannot copy-and-paste from the host OS.

I copied some commands in the host OS (Ubuntu 22.04) and then tried to use Ctrl-Shift-V to paste it into alpine terminal (the minimal image without GUI). But nothing is pasted. I also tried a few other key combinations and tried to solve the problem by installing and running bash. But still, it's not accepting paste.

How to enable copy & paste for the alpine Linux command line?

(I can install a GUI if that's necessary).