Copy and paste not working Win 8

[Matrixx]

Just installed VirtualBox with Windows XP running on it, as I was have trouble playing old games on VWware.

I want to transfer the old game from my Windows 8 machine onto the virtual however copy and paste/drag and drop doesn't work. I've enabled the bidirectional setting too.

Also I thought I could get the game onto the virtual via dropbox however I can't even access dropbox via the virtual

What am I missing?

Using version 4.3.10

[loukingjr]

add a shared folder to the guest pointing to a folder on the host that contains the game and copy it from the shared folder.

[Matrixx]

Ok thanks. I'll give that a go.

[Matrixx]

Managed to get the game onto the virtual. However when I try to play the game I get a message

"The virtual screen is currently set to a 16 bit color mode. For better performance please change to 32 bit"

The guest is set to 32 bit. There is no options in VB to change this.

[loukingjr]

glad you got it transferred, but, I doubt a 16bit game is going to run correctly in an XP guest but if you want to see if anyone has an idea how to make it work you should start a new thread.