I am using virtual box. I tried to enable clipboards bidirectional option, but when I copy anything from host file to guest, the paste option is not activated.
I have installed Guest Additions.
Any idea what the problem is?
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Related Solutions
With Guest Additions installed, the clipboard of your guest OS can be shared with your host OS.
Highlight the Guest VBox in the VirtualBox console, open General -> Advanced. Here you can choose between various Shared Clipboard settings: Disabled, Guest to Host, Host to Guest or Bidirectional
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
Best Answer
If it's a file(s) or folder you're trying to copy on the shared clipboard, I don't think that type of clipboard data is supported. When you copy a file, Windows doesn't write the entire file contents to the clipboard, it just writes a reference to the file. So it would make sense that you couldn't paste a file into a guest from the host's clipboard, since the guest doesn't know where that reference is pointing to. Try copying some plain text between the guest and host - if everything's set up correctly you should have no problem doing that.