Am 18.11.25 um 12:55 schrieb Fernando Cassia:
On Tue, 18 Nov 2025 at 07:57, Boris via VBox-users-community <vbox-
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Hej Virtualists,
I'm having troulbles exchanging data from host to guest and vice versa:
Host:
VirtualBox version 7.2.4 r170995 (Qt6.8.2 on xcb) on Debian Trixie
Extension Pack same version
Guest:
Debian Trixie, only stable repos, Gnome on X11
Guest Additions installed
Neither the shared clipboard (paste is grayed out) nor drag and drop
work:
DnD: Error: Drag and drop to guest not possible -- either the guest OS
does not support this, or the Guest Additions are not installed.
Result Code:
VBOX_E_DND_ERROR (0x80bb0011)
Component:
GuestDnDTargetWrap
Interface:
IGuestDnDTarget {50ce4b51-0ff7-46b7-a138-3c6e5ac946b4}
Callee:
IDnDTarget {ff5befc3-4ba3-7903-2aa4-43988ba11554}
There is nothing in the VM log.
The clipboard works with a Windows guest.
What should I do?
Thanks and regards,
Boris
Hi Boris,
First check the guest additions are indeed installed and running.
# In the guest VM, check if vboxadd services are running
systemctl status vboxadd
systemctl status vboxadd-service
# Check loaded kernel modules
lsmod | grep vbox
# Verify Guest Additions version
VBoxClient --version
SECOND IDEA:
Have you tried disabling Gnome's clipboard manager?
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-enable-primary-paste false
Try that.
If that doesn't make a difference, try launching guest additions manually
/usr/bin/VBoxClient --clipboard --draganddrop --seamless --display --vmsvga
(might require sudo, I don't remember, try with regular user and also root).
In case nothing above works, someone else actually running Debian might
want to chime in. I only run VBox on Windows Host with Windows guests,
currently.
Hope this helps...
FC
Hej Fernando,
thanks for taking part and helping me out!
root@nl-trixie-desktop-eval:~# systemctl status vboxadd
● vboxadd.service
Loaded: loaded (/opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-7.2.4/init/vboxadd;
enabled; prese>
Active: active (exited) since Tue 2025-11-18 10:54:00 CET; 4h
28min ago
Invocation: 5749aee9f90644a7a85e7817f9574919
Process: 802 ExecStart=/opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-7.2.4/init/vboxadd
start (co>
Main PID: 802 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Mem peak: 6.2M
CPU: 96ms
Nov 18 10:54:00 nl-trixie-desktop-eval systemd[1]: Starting
vboxadd.service...
Nov 18 10:54:00 nl-trixie-desktop-eval vboxadd[802]: VirtualBox Guest
Additions>
Nov 18 10:54:00 nl-trixie-desktop-eval systemd[1]: Finished vboxadd.service.
Oooops...!!
While doing the research on this, I realize, that the clipboard works
with cutted text from the VM's terminal to the host's Thunderbird - and
backwards! So only filetransfer ist impacted.
The checkbox for filetransfer is enabled.
root@nl-trixie-desktop-eval:~# systemctl status vboxadd-service.service
● vboxadd-service.service
Loaded: loaded
(/opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-7.2.4/init/vboxadd-service; enabled; preset:
enabled)
Active: active (running) since Tue 2025-11-18 10:54:00 CET; 4h
31min ago
The version is good as well:
root@nl-trixie-desktop-eval:~# VBoxClient --version
7.2.4r170995
I switched off Gnome#s clipboard manager - without success.
After having recognized that the clipboard works for text, I tried to
create a directory with grants 777 as paste target - without success as
well.
But I found some interesting in my personal home directory on the Guest:
-rw-r----- 1 boris boris 6 18. Nov 15:56
.vboxclient-clipboard-tty2-control.pid
-rw-r----- 1 boris boris 5 18. Nov 15:56
.vboxclient-clipboard-tty2-service.pid
-rw-r----- 1 boris boris 5 18. Nov 15:56
.vboxclient-draganddrop-tty2-control.pid
-rw-r----- 1 boris boris 5 18. Nov 15:56
.vboxclient-hostversion-tty2-control.pid
-rw-r----- 1 boris boris 5 18. Nov 15:56
.vboxclient-seamless-tty2-control.pid
-rw-r----- 1 boris boris 6 18. Nov 15:56
.vboxclient-vmsvga-session-tty2-control.pid
-rw-r----- 1 boris boris 5 18. Nov 15:56
.vboxclient-vmsvga-session-tty2-service.pid
Also with the manually started client I did not make it work.....
Once mor clearly said: It's only filetransfer through clipboard and Drag
and Drop that is noch working!!
Regards,
Boris
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