Vista host, XP guest VMWare drag and drop

Craig321 · 9 Feb 2009 at 19:45

Has anyone managed to get drag and drop working between a Vista x64 host and XP x86 guest in VMWare Workstation?

I've got all the drag and drop features enabled and VMWare Tools installed but it's still not working

Workstation 6.5

Any ideas?

Craig321 · 11 Feb 2009 at 22:44

Aod · 12 Feb 2009 at 01:02

i couldn't say how to get it working, but just add the HDD that the file is on as a virtual disk in VMware and access it from the guest OS.

Craig321 · 12 Feb 2009 at 11:45

Aod said:
i couldn't say how to get it working, but just add the HDD that the file is on as a virtual disk in VMware and access it from the guest OS.

I like to drag files from my host desktop to the guest desktop. You can't add the C: drive as a virtual disk can you?

bledd · 12 Feb 2009 at 11:48

what i usually do is setup a shared folder on my local machine and just map it..

this is using virtualbox though, never tried drag & drop, although it'd be damn useful

Craig321 · 12 Feb 2009 at 11:51

bledd. said:
what i usually do is setup a shared folder on my local machine and just map it..

this is using virtualbox though, never tried drag & drop, although it'd be damn useful

Yeah, I've not got a problem getting files between the host and the guest, I either use the shared folders features, or I just use the network. It'd just be so much easier getting the drag & drop feature working as it should