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I have both Windows XP and Windows 7 as guests on my Ubuntu 20.04 host using VirtualBox 6.1.14. The bidirectional drag and drop are working fine, but the bidirectional clipboard doesn't work in either direction.

I can drag and drop files from one to the other only if I resize the guest so that both host and guest appear on the screen. This is a nuisance since resizing the guest window always results in Windows shuffling the icons around on the desktop.

The shared folders are working perfectly so my workaround is to copy from linux to a shared folder and from there to windows (and vice versa) but that is awkward and I would prefer to just copy and paste from one to the other.

Does anyone have any idea why the clipboard is not shared?

The clipboard is only for text, not files.

I don't know if Drag-n-drop was programmed to handle guest-to-guest.

The most optimum solution would be to put the guests both in a Bridged or Host-Only network, then real shared folders can be used between guests and the host.

I'm afraid my memory is failing. I thought I remembered moving files over with the clipboard.

The clipboard works fine with text.

Copying files from guest to guest is not an issue as it isn't something I would want to do.

Many thanks.