Drag and Drop not working: VERR_ACCESS_DENIED

[ClausG]

Hi there,

I am working with VirtualBox 6.1.12 with a Windows 10 (1909) host and a Debian 10.5 guest. Guest Additions are seemingly installed correctly (incl. perl, etc.). Clipboard is working fine bidirectionally. Drag and drop is not working in any direction.

I try to d&d files from Debian GNOME Files application (3.30.5-stable) to Windows Explorer and vise versa.

I am working through this: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/DnDDebug

..and thus generated the two following logfile sets for 6.1.12 (originally used version) and also for 6.1.10, after I did not find 6.1.12 in the bug ticket version list and thought: Might not harm to test the previous version, too.

In none of the logs I could identify helpful DnD-debug msgs except in the guest log of the 6.1.12 tests:

06:03:11.674153 00007f9c03e84640 main     New guest source window 0x200005 ('<No name>')
06:03:11.777268 00007f9c03e84640 main     Error reporting pending drag and drop operation status to host: VERR_ACCESS_DENIED
06:03:11.777307 00007f9c03e84640 main     Processing message 101 failed with VERR_ACCESS_DENIED
06:03:11.790000 00007f9c03e84640 main     New guest source window 0x200005 ('<No name>')

I tried to find suitable solutions here and in the www, but was not successful.

This bug ticket is configured to 6.1.10 but was originally intended to be assigned to 6.1.12, which seems not to be possible.

Thanks in advance and best regards Claus

[Ricky Tigg]

Hello. Won't pollute author's report by adding my own logs unless queried by a developer.

Host (not in nested virtualisation environment): Fedora 35; kernel v. 5.16.x; Gnome 41 on X.org; VirtualBox GUI v.6.1.32_rpmfusion r149290, (Qt5.15.2). Guests: Fedora 35, Windows 10.

Note: GA installed by relying solely on this application built-in tool and therefore not by solely relying on the package present in Fedora repository that covers a similar task. Indeed that package does not serve any missing function and should then be removed; that's a separate issue, not involving this application.

• Drag and drop: operation only working from host to guest; a denied-icon is exhibited in host, in Nautilus, when attempting to operate from guest to host.
• Clipboard not working bidirectionally; tested by copy/paste operations involving text.