Cannot drag/drop or copy/paste on Ubuntu (Parallel Desktop 7)

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Cannot drag/drop or copy/paste on Ubuntu (Parallel Desktop 7)

I have two Virtual Machines running on my MacbookPro. One is Windows and the other is Ubuntu. The Windows 7 system is running perfectly well but the Ubuntu VM has got issues with dragging/dropping files from Mac to Ubuntu and vice versa.

When I checked on the Parallel Desktop's forum, the only solution provided was that the Parallel Desktop's tool should be uninstalled and reinstalled; which I have done. But that didn't solve the problem. The Configuration menu "Virtual Machine" offered checkboxes for the (Copy & Paste) section, and I can confirm that both boxes for 'Share Mac Cipboard' and 'Preserve Text Formatting' are checked. That should have solved the copy/paste problem but didn't.

Anyone faced this problem before ? Any solutions you may have ?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), (RAM - 4Gb)

Posted on Mar 21, 2012 9:38 AM

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etresoft

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Mar 21, 2012 9:45 AM in response to andy8

This is Linux, after all. Anything that Parallels doesn't handle for you will fall back on the services that Linux provides, which are very few. Basic things like copy and paste may or may not work, depending on the application.

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andy8 Author

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Mar 21, 2012 9:48 AM in response to etresoft

Thanks for your reply. But I'm unable to even drag/drop files or documents on the Ubuntu desktop.

The fact that Parallels Desktop provide 'Parallels Tools' installation to enable seamless integration between OS's (Ubuntu and Mac) and vice-versa should have solved this problem.

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etresoft

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Mar 21, 2012 2:46 PM in response to andy8

andy8 wrote:

The fact that Parallels Desktop provide 'Parallels Tools' installation to enable seamless integration between OS's (Ubuntu and Mac) and vice-versa should have solved this problem.

Perhaps you should contact Parallels and ask. Because MacOS X is already UNIX, most Mac users running Parallels use it for Windows. People on the Parallels forums would have more experience running Linux.

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