Drag and Drop not working in VirtualBox 4.3 and higher

[iamsrijon]

Hello,
I'm sorry to say that DnD is not working in VirtualBox 4.3(=>) in any Host (windows, OS X, Linux).
Please take care of that issue

[socratis]

Hello,
I'm sorry to say that DnD is not working in VirtualBox 4.3(=>) in any Host (windows, OS X, Linux).
Please take care of that issue

According to the manual this feature is only supported on Linux guests. You mention 3 hosts. Are you running 3 different hosts or did you mean 3 different guests?

[iamsrijon]

I'm using ubuntu 12.04 guest in all there hosts

[socratis]

I just tried it on an OSX 10.6.8 host with an Ubuntu 12.04 guest. Dragged a text file from my host desktop to my guest VM. Cursor changed to the typical "Copy cursor" in OSX. Released the mouse and the file appeared on my Ubuntu desktop and opened correctly with gedit. Do you have the correct version of the Guest Additions installed in the Guest?

[iamsrijon]

I missed to say another thing, I had tried to drag folder from Mac Host to Ubuntu guest, didn't work for me
Guest addition version was same as VBox version

[socratis]

Just a silly question. You do have Drag and Drop enabled in your VM, right?
VM Settings -> General -> Drag'n'Drop -> Bidirectional or HostToGuest

[Martin]

I had tried to drag folder from Mac Host to Ubuntu guest

As far as I understand the feature description d&d is supported for single files, not for folders.

[socratis]

not for folders

NICE CATCH!!! It doesn't support folders! But, you can drag multiple files. Something which I didn't know since I don't use D&D. I discovered by trial and error that it also doesn't support files with spaces in their name, i.e. "This file.txt" won't work...