How to Enable Drag and Drop support in VirtualBox?

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In this video, we will guide you on How to enable Drag and Drop support in VirtualBox. VirtualBox is a great freeware that lets you install any Windows OS virtually on your computer. The VirtualBox free software allows you to share a folder from the host OS with the guest OS. The VirtualBox is full of features. It allows installing a virtual OS on the host operating system and sharing the folder between the host and guest OS, but it also lets you copy the files and folders from the guest OS to the host OS and from the host to the guest OS. The benefit of the drag-and-drop features is that you don’t need to copy your files to a USB flash drive and then transfer them to the Guest machine. That means, by enabling the Drage and Drop support on your Virtualbox, you can copy and file or folder from the host machine to a guest machine and vice-versa. To enable Drag and Drop support in VirtualBox, you have to install the Guest additions. How to install Guest additions on a Virtual machine? To install guest additions on a virtual machine, first Run the guest Windows 11 or 10. Then, from the VirtualBox menu, click on the Devices and select the “Insert Guest Additions CD image” option. Now, open File Explorer by pressing the Windows + E keys on the keyboard. Then, open the virtual CD-ROM. Run the VBoxWindowsAdditions.exe by double-clicking on it, which is automatically mounted on the virtual CD-ROM.

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