Having trouble getting drag and drop or clipboard to work

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Laggy
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Having trouble getting drag and drop or clipboard to work

Post by Laggy »

Hi guys. I installed virtualbox and put a windows 7 install on it. But I'm having trouble getting these functions to work and I'm not quite sure why.

Host: Windows 7
Guest: Windows 7
VirtualBox version: 4.3.20

Yes, I installed the Guest Additions. VboxTray is running. I've even tried manually restarting it to see if it helped, but it didn't. And yes, Clipboard and Drag-n-Drop are both set to bidirectional.

I did a good bit of searching first, but everything I read just kept saying "install Guest Additions!" or whatever. Anyone have any other suggestions?
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Re: Having trouble getting drag and drop or clipboard to wor

Post by loukingjr »

See Minimum information needed for assistance.

Drag n Drop only works with Linux guests btw.
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Laggy
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Re: Having trouble getting drag and drop or clipboard to wor

Post by Laggy »

Sorry.

VirtualBox 4.3.20, with Guest Additions installed.

Host: Windows 7 64bit, 6gb ram
Guest: Windows 7 64bit, 1gb ram
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loukingjr
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Re: Having trouble getting drag and drop or clipboard to wor

Post by loukingjr »

Nothing to be sorry about.
The log you posted wasn't complete. Normally you have to shutdown the guest then get the log. Are you sure you installed the GAs? I see you mounted the .iso but did you actually run the guest additions installer?

You can't copy and paste files btw. Only text and image clippings.
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