How to enable VirtualBox shared clipboard/drag-and-drop

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Running Windows 8 guest in Xubuntu 13.10 host. VirtualBox 4.2.16.

I set bidirectional clipboard and drag-and-drop in the menu.

But… neither of these works. If I drag a file from Ubuntu to Windows, the cursor goes correctly from Ubuntu to Windows, but dropping the file does nothing. If I drag from Windows, the cursor does not leave the guest window.

How can I resolve this?

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Drag and drop currently (v4.3.8) works with Linux guests only, and only in the host->guest direction. Use a shared folder as an intermediate location.

From this Link.

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you need to do one step more, when you start your window 7, you will see menus at top.

click on Devices -> shared Clipboard -> Bidirectional

now you can copy and paste from host to guest or gues to host

Does VirtualBox allow sharing between a host and guest in practice

Have you tried using "Bridged Networking" network card settings for the guest operating system?. "Bridged Networking" option provides sharing the network interface between the host and guest operating system.

Ensure, you have configured Network adapter settings as "Bridged Networking" and try accessing the shared network path.

Also, ensure the local windows firewall is not blocking your network connection. Do ping check from guest OS to host and ensure it is responding. To isolate the issue, disable the Firewall for a moment and check the shared path accessible.

Hope this helps.

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