The reasons being that the people who make the software don't want to make it good?mpack wrote:If you read the thread then you may understand the reasons that lead to the reluctance to implement this feature. Those reasons are still valid after five years, and may well remain valid after 50 years.Xympa wrote:Almost 5 years after the start of this topic the status remains the same?
Drag and Drop in VirtualBox?
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If you are still around: You can try VMwares free "player" it supports this (despite the name being "player" its a product which runs a virtual machine, but i guess you could say it playes different OS'satomica wrote:I also hope this will be implemented. This is the only function that I miss from Microsoft Virtual PC.
Although sharing folders makes it easy to copy over files, nothing beats drag and drop.
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Or maybe not every feature that's useful to a few people (disclaimer: I'm not one of those) is actually worth implementing. Especially if it means not implementing something else instead. It may surprise you, but the VirtualBox development resources aren't infinite.velrum wrote:The reasons being that the people who make the software don't want to make it good?
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"Good" is a subjective evaluation. Personally I have no interest in drag and drop, but I do worry about the potential security holes introduced by the underlying data copying mechanisms that would need to exist.velrum wrote:The reasons being that the people who make the software don't want to make it good?
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If you bothered to lookup the new features in the upcoming version, you'll realize that this is being added incrementally for all guest types.
If you bothered to lookup the new features in the upcoming version, you'll realize that this is being added incrementally for all guest types.
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If you need this feature urgently, then you could always contact Oracle and offer to fund accelerated development. Or as DNS says, you could simply wait.velrum wrote:The reasons being that the people who make the software don't want to make it good?
Personally I just use a shared folder, but then I have little need for drag-n-drop. In WMWare I use it maybe once every two weeks.
Also note that VM Player is seriously limited when compared to VBox.
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