Snow Leopard on Lion with VMware: Drag and drop?

[what4]

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.

[bazookaman]

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.

[rjmacs]

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.

[bazookaman]

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.

[Jimmypoo]

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.

[clay]

You could either use a shared folder like others have suggested, or just install dropbox, which will transfer files pretty quickly as well.

[Chakravartin]

One of the first things that I noticed was that drag-drop was broken in the Snow Leopard VM.

'Haven't found a fix.

[Trouble]

Jusy fired up SL on VMware and the drag and drop didn't work here either.