Bidirectional Drag'n Drop Is Not Working With VirtualBox And Ubuntu 14.04
Answer : "Drag and Drop" was introduced with the guest additions in Virtual Box 5.0. with some limitations: 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. VirtualBox Manual In addition to that only drag & drop of simple text, or files and directories of the file manager not running with administrative permissions is supported. Preliminary experimental versions of Virtual Box "Drag'N'Drop" to a Linux guest only were introduced in version 4.2 . According to the Release notes: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-4.2 "Added experimental support for Drag'n'drop from the host to Linux guests. Support for more guests and for guest-to-host is planned." I did not see any newer release notes indicating that status had changed. So, Drag 'n' ...