I have tried everything but Drag and Drop does not work. I have made it bidirectional by setting Clipboard and Drag and Drop as bidirectional in Settings > General > Advanced. This applies for all the guest OS i have on my virtual box. There are many updates which have come all this time, but none of them even after re-installation have fixed the issues. I did a work around for windows OS by opening the shared folder and then transferring the files, however for other linux based operating system and a android emulator I am running, this does not work. Guest addition installation has not fixed the issue either.
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In the top menu go to Device - Insert Guest Additions CD image. On the Windows VM go to Explorer, then look for the drive that represents the newly 'inserted' CD. Once there, run VBoxWindowsAdditions.exe as administrator and install. Enable Clipboard and Drag&Drop under either VM settings or the Devices menu. Jan 2015, 09:27. From the User Manual, Chapter 3.3.2, Drag and Drop: This feature is currently only implemented for Linux guests and only for copying files from the host to the guest. And please do not ask why it's not disabled since it's not working. It has been discussed in length in the past. Seamless Use Windows side-by-side with macOS (no restarting required) on your MacBook, MacBook Pro, iMac, iMac Pro, Mac mini or Mac Pro. Share files and folders, copy and paste images and text & drag and drop files between Mac and Windows applications. Easy Set-Up Parallels Desktop automatically detects what you need to get started so you are up and going within minutes! Drag-and-drop configuration set to host-to-guest, guest-to-host, or bidirectional. Dragging files to/from host desktop or folder. Dragging files to/from guest desktop, folder (in Thunar), or drag-and-drop-aware application (Geany).
I am stuck - I can't do a fresh reinstallation now as other licensed OS will be gone and will take me a lot of time to get all the VM's up.Request your help and support on this matter.
PS: Drag and Drop does not work even if I share the folder and then try using drag and drop.
Virtualbox Drag Drop Not Working
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