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It doesn't work. Not even one-way clipboard or drag'n'drop work from host to guest or viceversa.

I'm running Virtualbox 4.2.4 r81684 on a Mac OS X Mountain Lion host with a Windows XP guest with freshly updated Guest Additions.

This used to work back when I installed Windows XP but I don't know what version of Virtualbox I was using back then, there's been three updates since I think.

Is this just happening to me or can anyone else replicate the issue with a similar (or preferably identical) setup?


Thanks.

Drag'n'drop only works from host to Linux guest at this point and the setting needs to be set to host to guest not bidirectional.
Clipboard has been disabled in the newer versions and forces the user to make the choice of belonging it or not. See the devices tab on the guest or the guest settings to enable it.

I did check in Devices before making this post and as I said, it doesn't work. Yes, it was disabled by default so I enabled them and tried all options and none of them worked.

I am guessing this hasn't been added to the latest version of VirtualBox yet? I'm running a Windows XP vm on a MacOSX 10.8.3 host.

Ikus wrote:I did check in Devices before making this post and as I said, it doesn't work. Yes, it was disabled by default so I enabled them and tried all options and none of them worked.

you can't drag n drop from a host to a WIndows guest and the clipboard is text only and it works.

edit: if you are using a clipboard manager on the Mac side there is a good chance even text may not work.