Drag and Drop in VirtualBox?

[velrum]

Almost 5 years after the start of this topic the status remains the same?

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.

The reasons being that the people who make the software don't want to make it good?

[velrum]

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.

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's

[michaln]

The reasons being that the people who make the software don't want to make it good?

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.

[mpack]

The reasons being that the people who make the software don't want to make it good?

"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.

[DNS]

@Velrum

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.

[Twisted Lucidity]

The reasons being that the people who make the software don't want to make it good?

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.

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.