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I am working on a document on mac (osx 10.9) and I have a virual machine running windows 7 - the issue is I dont know how to enable it so I can copy text from the word document in mac to the word document or application in the virtual box.
I have guest editions installed and enabled ...
How does one enable copy and paste from host to client?
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In the top menu go to Device -> Insert Guest Additions CD image. On the Windows VM go to Explorer, then look for the drive that represents the newly "inserted" CD. Once there, run VBoxWindowsAdditions.exe as administrator and install. Enable Clipboard and Drag&Drop under either VM settings or the Devices menu.
To paste the clipboard data to VirtualBox windows 7 virtual machine, you should press Ctrl + ↑ + V. To copy text or files on a windows 7 virtual machine, you should press Ctrl + ↑ + C.
Dragging and Dropping Files in VirtualBox On the top bar of the running guest machine, click on Devices > Drag and Drop and make sure that Bidirectional is selected. This means that you will be able to drag files from the host to the guest and from the guest to the host.
Check if the "Shared Clipboard" feature is disabled. It should be somewhere around Settings > General > Advanced. You can set it to bidirectional or any other setting you need.
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