How to drag N Drop Virtualbox
Drag and Drop Between VirtualBox Host And Guest Machines
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which guy's going to have a video here
for you in this one we're going to be
looking at how we can copy text or drag
and drop files from our main machine
here which you can see to our VirtualBox
okay now our virtual machines are really
useful and if you want to use the two so
for instance I'm using say Windows 8
here as you can see inside our windows 7
base machine now the one here my Windows
7 machine is my main operating system
and this is my VirtualBox okay
on this machine now if you want to copy
and paste text between the two of these
it can be a pretty difficult if you
don't set it up right and it's pretty
easy to do once you know how ok so for
instance if I want to copy this text
here on my main machine which is this
machine here to my VirtualBox machine so
and let me just quickly try and paste
some text into a text document here
you'll find that it's grayed out and you
can't do it you see and the reason why
is because it hasn't been set up to do
that now also you can't drag and drop
files from the main machine to here
you'd have to map a drive ok now to set
this up it's really easy to do and I'll
show you how you can do that so once you
open up the Oracle VM VirtualBox manager
here this is going to allow you to set
up your settings so you can copy files
from one to the other without having a
map drive here so you can see here we're
running Windows 8 inside Windows 7 and
this is another operating system which
we haven't started up yet so if we want
to set it up for this operating system
all you need to do is highlight it hit
settings under the general tab here you
want to go to where it says advanced and
then you want to setup where it says
shared clipboard you can see it says
disabled and drag and drop is been
disabled now word of warning here guys
before I start to set this up if you are
doing malware removal testing inside
your virtual machine you do not want to
enable this feature ok as a just in case
anything jumps across or anything like
that so I would advise you to keep these
disabled if you are using this as a
malware testing lab and stuff like that
ok but if you're not and you want
share files between the two then you can
set this up as bi-directional okay is
very easy to do so you can set these up
like so and this will allow you then to
copy and paste text into here so we
could go back to here we can then copy
this text again and we could go back
into a virtual machine now open this up
and we should be able to paste the text
straight into there okay very simple and
you can also drag and drop from your
main machine to the VirtualBox by just
dragging and dropping it very simple to
do okay guys and that's basically how
you can set up a drag-and-drop or copy
and paste from your main machine to a
VirtualBox machine okay my name is Brian
from protect computers Cody Kay hope
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