VB 7.0.14, Drag and Drop Host to Guest and Guest to Host dont work

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Lisa Miller
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VB 7.0.14, Drag and Drop Host to Guest and Guest to Host dont work

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VirtualBox 7.0.14
Host: Linux Mint LMDE6 (Debian 12 based), Cinnamon, 64Bit
Guest: Linux Mint LMDE6 (Debian 12 based), Cinnamon, 64Bit, Guest addins 7.0.14 installed

I set the option to bidirectional. Drag and Drop Host to Guest and Guest to Host dont work.
( In VirtualBox 7.0.12 it works from Host to Guest, but not from Guest to Host)
The clipboard works in both directions.

Statement that DnD should be possible in both directions nowadays:
Drag and drop support only is available for VirtualBox 5.0 and newer. Older versions of VirtualBox only had experimental support and therefore are not supported.
The guest needs to have the VirtualBox Guest Additions installed in order to perform drag and drop operations from/to the host. Without Guest Additions drag and drop will not work!
Drag and drop is disabled by default on newly created VMs. To enable drag and drop support, go to the VM's "Devices" menu, open "Drag and drop" and select the appropriate mode you want to use.
* https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/DnDDebug

Note: Please also be aware that drag and drop (DnD) support at the moment only is available for the official "VirtualBox Manager" frontend. If you do use other frontends (such as VBoxHeadless or VBoxSDL) then this guide will not work for you.

Description for debugging DnD:
* https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/DnDDebug

Host to Guest Error:
Die Drag-und-Drop-Operation vom Host zum Gast ist fehlgeschlagen.

DnD: Error: Moving to 893,526 (screen 0) failed (VERR_TIMEOUT).

Result Code:VBOX_E_DND_ERROR (0X80BB0011)
Component:GuestDnDTargetWrap
Interface:IGuestDnDTarget {50ce4b51-0ff7-46b7-a138-3c6e5ac946b4}
Callee:IDnDTarget {ff5befc3-4ba3-7903-2aa4-43988ba11554}
* https://ibb.co/Lvmq2xD

Guest to Host Error:
Die Drag-und-Drop-Operation vom Gast zum Host ist fehlgeschlagen.

DnD: Error: Requesting pending data from guest failed (VERR_TIMEOUT).

Result Code:VBOX_E_DND_ERROR (0X80BB0011)
Component:GuestDnDSourceWrap
Interface:IGuestDnDSource {dedfb5d9-4c1b-edf7-fdf3-c1be6827dc28}
Callee:IDnDSource {d23a9ca3-42da-c94b-8aec-21968e08355d}
* https://ibb.co/Sc0Z68b

Do certain rights or something else have to be set manually in the host operating system so that DnD is also possible from the guest to the host?
List of last known version of VirtualBox where DnD still works in both directions:
* viewtopic.php?t=111442

Self-explanatory display of experimental features in the GUI:
* https://www.virtualbox.org//ticket/22048

Self-explanatory display of default values in the GUI:
* https://www.virtualbox.org//ticket/22049
Lisa Miller
Posts: 30
Joined: 11. Mar 2020, 02:30

Re: VB 7.0.14, Drag and Drop Host to Guest and Guest to Host dont work

Post by Lisa Miller »

Its looks like, the follow threads report about the same situation:
* viewtopic.php?p=547649#p547649
* viewtopic.php?t=108459
List of last known version of VirtualBox where DnD still works in both directions:
* viewtopic.php?t=111442

Self-explanatory display of experimental features in the GUI:
* https://www.virtualbox.org//ticket/22048

Self-explanatory display of default values in the GUI:
* https://www.virtualbox.org//ticket/22049
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