If Virtual PC and VMware can do it why shouldn't VirtualBox be able to as well? I never said implementing drag and drop would be easy. Nov 2009, 03:13 Primary OS: Debian other VBox Version: PUEL Guest OSses: WinXP Pro SP3 That said, if VirtualBox devs end up implementing drag-and-drop, I won't complain, but it's by no means an easy thing to implement. It might be a little time-consuming the first time, but once you know how to do it, you can do it quite quickly. It's also very secure, because you only share what you want to. It's really not difficult to set up guest additions and shared directories. The average desktop user does not understand what's really going on with things like VirtualBox, and so makes demands for it to be like Wine, which is designed to integrate (for some value of "integrate") into your host system, rather than what it actually is, which is a complete and distinct, though virtual, computer. In the past, virtualisation was essentially restricted to server-like environments where the admins were expected to know how things worked (and often why as well). The real problem as I see it is that virtualisation has become popularised. I think this is probably the most important question: How would the transfer take place if a suitable (virtual) network connection is not already established? There could potentially be MASSIVE security issues with automagic transfers like this. What exactly is being dragged? Is it a chunk of text, a rendered image, or a file from a file manager? Should VirtualBox handle all or only some of these types? How exactly would VirtualBox be notified on what type of object is being dragged on each variant of host system? How can VirtualBox allow dragging from the guest system to the host that looks and feels like how it works on the host? How should drag-and-drop be handled on non-graphical guest systems? For the most part, it Just Works(TM), but there's a lot of complications under the surface. It would not be satisfactory for VirtualBox to implement methods that only work on some combinations of host/guest.ĭrag-and-drop is probably the most misunderstood feature of modern computing. There is a need to make it work, and VirtualBox being a cross-platform general-purpose virtualisation solution limits the ways things can be done. AliveNoMore wrote:It is indeed needlessly complicated the way it is now.
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