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Hi,

I read the user manual and try using sub-command "copyto" to copy file from host to guest. I'm using VirtualBox 5.0.2 and the host ist Linux and guest is Windows 7 SP1 64-bit.

When I using below command, the VBoxManage always claimed "No destination specified!":

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VBoxManage guestcontrol "8bc802ab-56af-439f-81fb-a9862cb31f66" copyto /home/alex/Daten/$dat c:\Data --username a --password a
Usage:

VBoxManage guestcontrol     <uuid|vmname> [--verbose|-v] [--quiet|-q]
                              [--username <name>] [--domain <domain>]
                              [--passwordfile <file> | --password <password>]
                              copyto [common-options]
                              [--dryrun] [--follow] [-R|--recursive]
                              <host-src0> [host-src1 [...]] <guest-dst>

                              copyto [common-options]
                              [--dryrun] [--follow] [-R|--recursive]
                              [--target-directory <guest-dst>]
                              <host-src0> [host-src1 [...]]


Syntax error: No destination specified!

If I change the command to below, the command terminated successful but no file copied to the host folder.

VBoxManage guestcontrol "8bc802ab-56af-439f-81fb-a9862cb31f66" copyto /home/alex/Daten/$dat --target-directory c:\Data --username alex --password alexander

Dose the command is correct? if so, why the file can't copied to the guest?

I've searched on google but no related found, so I asked here. Thanks very much!

If you're using 5.0.2 and not 5.0.20, you might consider upgrading, because there were fixes to the copyto command. From the release notes of version 5.0.20 (2016-04-28):

• Guest Control: various bugfixes for the copyfrom and copyto commands / API (bug #14336)

On the other hand, do you actually have a file named "dat$" or "$dat"? Not sure if it's going to create a conflict. Try changing it to "dat.txt" or something simple and see if it works.

Hi,
I have the similar question,I'm using VirtualBox 5.0.20 and the host is Linux and guest is Windows 7 SP1 32-bit.When I using command:
VBoxManage guestcontrol "Windows" --username WENHUA --password 1 copyto /test/ip --target-directory d:\test
good news is I have not received any error messages, bad news is the file was not copied to the guest.

Can you show me a correct example? Thanks very much!

I don't know if it's a bug, regression or what else, but here's a command that should work:

 VBoxManage guestcontrol "Windows" copyto 
      --verbose
      --username WENHUA
      --password 1
      /test/ip
      --target-directory d:/test/

I've marked the differences in red:
• "--verbose" enables verbose mode. Not mandatory but helpful.
• The use of "/" (slash) versus "\" (backslash) in the directory name. That's the potential bug I was talking about.

dear socratis,
thank you very much!
best wishes to you!

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