A developer can easily copy from vim inside the VM
The hard part, VM installing with bi-directional clipboard support, is handled when installing that, and is working easily for me.
Instead, it's Vim itself being the holdout. It seems to be impossible to install from a package with clipboard support enabled without installing a ton (minimum 42.3 MB) extra junk.
https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/13564/why-is-vim-for-debian-compiled-without-clipboard