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I want to simply send a picture and other files to a virtual box and after reading a lot from this platform I still cant find my way through it.

How would one do this in the most simple way possible?

iamatrain
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Brainy Bamfo
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The simpliest way is probably to enable Drag'n'Drop between Guest & Host, but since you wrote neither about your Host OS nor about your Guest OS you might face some Problems. (Also the Virtual Box Version is unknown.)

Nevertheless you can enable Drag'n'Drop in the VM Settings:

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You can choose between:

  • Disabled
  • Host to Guest
  • Guest to Host
  • Bidirectional

Version is 5.0.2. The feature was introduced in 4.2. Facing problems this topic might help. Regardless of your OS there are additional information as well: Bidirectional drag'n drop is not working with VirtualBox and ubuntu 14.04

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h0ch5tr4355
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Since you did not give enough details about your virtualbox I can give only a general solution.

There are two simple ways:

1) use dropbox or any other similar programs - this is maybe not the optimal, but the easiest

2) set up a shared drive, depending on the OS on the virtualbox this can differ, but there is a pretty detailed guide here: http://www.howtogeek.com/189974/how-to-share-your-computers-files-with-a-virtual-machine/

Hope it helps...

sboda
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