Issues with bidirectional clipboad

[Calvy667]

Hello, I'm using the most current non-beta version of oracle VM virtualbox to do some programming experimentation. My host machine is windows 7, my guest machine is CentOs7:

The bidirectional clipboard and the Drag 'n Drop (which I am dead sure I enabled through settings), does not work. I tried copying and pasting both text and files between my host and vm and it doesn't give me the paste option after I've copied.

[socratis]

I'm using the most current non-beta version of oracle VM virtualbox

And yet you posted in the "VirtualBox Beta / Release Candidate Feedback" subforum. Moving your post to "Windows Hosts".

the Drag 'n Drop (which I am dead sure I enabled through settings)

Follow a "start the VM from cold-boot"/"observe error"/"shutdown the VM" cycle. With the VM shut down completely (not paused or saved), right-click on the VM in the VirtualBox Manager and select "Show Log". Save only the first "VBox.log", ZIP it and attach it to your response (see the "Upload attachment" tab below the reply form).

I tried copying and pasting both text and files

Simple text is the only copy/paste that works. Files don't.

[alexandis]

I turn on bidirection, Windows 8.1 Pro as host and Windows Server 2016 as virtual. Clipboard and drag-n-drop does not work in either direction. I mean FILES. Is it normal? Only text is supposed to be copied? Why?

[scottgus1]

Clipboard is text only. Drag-n-drop is for files. Both require Guest Additions in the guest. Drag-n-drop is experimental yet. Guest Additions Shared Folders always works for file copy, and real network shared folders always work for anything a shared folder usually does on real PCs.