On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Berin Babcock-McConnell <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am interested in working on adding file drag and drop functionality to > VirtualBox. I've read through the old messages pertaining to this topic > on the vbox-dev mailing list and I've looked through the current > development code. I see that there is some "initial DnD support" in the > code but there are some critical files missing and it doesn't seem to be > possible to enable DnD functionality at this point. So I'm wondering if > the missing files just don't exist or are they destined for a closed > source guest addition? Also given that this is "initial" support, what > remains to be done?
Hello Berin, There is NO drag-n-drop code in VirtualBox at all, not open and not closed. The coding must be done from scratch. There is a 3rd party project, based on VirtualBox (VMlite Workstation), that claims to have drag-n-drop, but they are closed source, and is Windows-only (both host and guest side), so have limited interest from my side. In addition to VMlite - there is some VMware open-source code for this task: "open-vm-tools" for Linux/X11 guests. NOTE: In case you start with VMware (code is GPLed), Oracle may disable it from their builds at compile-time (so it will work with VirtualBox_OSE only). I will very much appreciate any such effort. Best wishes, -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
