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Snow Leopard on Lion with VMware: Drag and drop? - what4 - 12-14-2011
Running Snow Leopard on Lion here through VMWare Fusion 4.1.
I have not been able yet to drag and drop between the two OS's. When I try, it just does not work. VMWare instructions seem to apply only to an earlier version and don't work in this one.
Anybody done this? Is there a secret?
I'm running SL because Lion needlessly killed access to a perfectly good HP scanner that turns out to require a PPC driver, even on VueScan.
Re: Snow Leopard on Lion with VMware: Drag and drop? - bazookaman - 12-14-2011
I'm not sure how much help this is since I use Parallels and I run Windows in my VMs. But Parallels has to install the Parallels Tools in the VM system which enables things like drag and drop. But like I said, I don't know if this applies to a Mac OS in a Mac OS or not.
Re: Snow Leopard on Lion with VMware: Drag and drop? - rjmacs - 12-14-2011
Is it a giant pain to drag files into a shared folder inside the VM, then retrieve them from Lion OS? I know it's mildly clunky, but hardly a huge inconvenience.
Re: Snow Leopard on Lion with VMware: Drag and drop? - bazookaman - 12-14-2011
rjmacs wrote:
Is it a giant pain to drag files into a shared folder inside the VM, then retrieve them from Lion OS? I know it's mildly clunky, but hardly a huge inconvenience.
I've done this on various VM's (windows and ubuntu) and while it's not difficult, it's really annoying simply b/c you KNOW it can be done quicker, better, faster, easier etc.
Re: Snow Leopard on Lion with VMware: Drag and drop? - Jimmypoo - 12-15-2011
The Drag-drop feature seems to have become more difficult with later versions. No consistency on file type.
I just created a file on the desktop of VMWare and a file in my Documents/VMWare folder that is the shared folder, and push them back and forth with that.
Seems I can move zip files or PC installers - especially if they are small, from desktop to desktop, but not as easily with larger stuff. I'd rather not get pissed - and just use the folder via an Alias when I'm using VMWare- and make the Alias on the Mac desktop just before launching VMWare - and tossing it when I done, given how little I use it.
Re: Snow Leopard on Lion with VMware: Drag and drop? - clay - 12-15-2011
You could either use a shared folder like others have suggested, or just install dropbox, which will transfer files pretty quickly as well.
Re: Snow Leopard on Lion with VMware: Drag and drop? - Chakravartin - 12-15-2011
One of the first things that I noticed was that drag-drop was broken in the Snow Leopard VM.
'Haven't found a fix.
Re: Snow Leopard on Lion with VMware: Drag and drop? - Trouble - 12-15-2011
Jusy fired up SL on VMware and the drag and drop didn't work here either.