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[weedfreak]

Hi there!

My situation: Host Xubuntu 14-4, Guest Win7

Problem: cannot copy/cut and paste from Host to Guest.

Settings are correct.

Can anybody tell my how to correct this?

thanks a million

[mpack]

What data type are you cutting and pasting? Are the Guest Additions installed? (in the guest).

I'm not happy about "settings are correct" either. How do I know what that means or if it's true? Be specific.

[weedfreak]

Thanks for the response.
I'm trying to copy and past a number and some text.
Shared clipboard is set to Host to Guest, drag'nDrop to Host to Guest
I don't know if the guest additions have been installed.
How can I check that?

[loukingjr]

If you didn't install them they aren't installed. Can you switch your Windows guest to full screen?

[weedfreak]

The Guest is switchable to full screen.

[loukingjr]

First, Drag n Drop only works from a host to a Linux guest.

Shared clipboard should work in either direction. With your Windows guest shutdown, please attach its vbox.log file (compressed).

[loukingjr]

btw, make sure your username is a member of the vboxuser group.
in the Xubuntu terminal…

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sudo adduser username vboxuser

replace username with your login name. reboot Xubuntu