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Just installed VirtualBox with Windows XP running on it, as I was have trouble playing old games on VWware.

I want to transfer the old game from my Windows 8 machine onto the virtual however copy and paste/drag and drop doesn't work. I've enabled the bidirectional setting too.

Also I thought I could get the game onto the virtual via dropbox however I can't even access dropbox via the virtual

What am I missing?

Using version 4.3.10

add a shared folder to the guest pointing to a folder on the host that contains the game and copy it from the shared folder.

Ok thanks. I'll give that a go.

Managed to get the game onto the virtual. However when I try to play the game I get a message

"The virtual screen is currently set to a 16 bit color mode. For better performance please change to 32 bit"

The guest is set to 32 bit. There is no options in VB to change this.

glad you got it transferred, but, I doubt a 16bit game is going to run correctly in an XP guest but if you want to see if anyone has an idea how to make it work you should start a new thread.