Mac Sierra and Windows 10 Guest

[liferules04]

New to VB ... sort of. I used it maybe 5 years ago on a PC but now am setting up a WIN10 Guest on Mac.

Can someone point me in the right direction on configuring either Drag and Drop or Shared Folders to copy files from Guest to Host.

Thanks,
Chuck

[socratis]

Can someone point me in the right direction on configuring either Drag and Drop or Shared Folders to copy files from Guest to Host.

Sure thing. They're next to each other actually, since they both require the Guest Additions (GAs):

• Chapter 4.3. Shared folders.
• Chapter 4.4. Drag and Drop.

[liferules04]

Sure thing. They're next to each other actually, since they both require the Guest Additions (GAs):

• Chapter 4.3. Shared folders.
• Chapter 4.4. Drag and Drop.

Thanks socratis. I was able to implement Shared Folders. I never got Drag and Drop to work. I suspect it was because I am using a Mac host and Windows guest, Chapter 4.4 states:

At the moment drag and drop is implemented for Windows- and X-Windows-based systems, both, on host and guest side. As X-Windows sports different drag and drop protocols only the most used one, XDND, is supported for now. Applications using other protocols (such as Motif or OffiX) will not be recognized by VirtualBox.

[socratis]

They must have forgotten to update the manual. DnD works just fine on the OSX host side. They need to fix that, I'll fire a quick e-mail to the developers' mailing list.

If it doesn't work, follow a "start from cold-boot"/"observe error"/"shutdown" cycle. With the VM shut down completely (not paused or saved), right-click on the VM in the VirtualBox Manager and select "Show Log". Save the first "VBox.log" only, ZIP it and attach it to your response (see the "Upload attachment" tab below the reply form).