Copy/Paste Drag/Drop with guest Lion

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Is drag/drop and/or copy/paste supposed to work between the host and an OS X Lion guest?

It's not working for me and I cannot find any options in the VM settings to enable this. There are no Copy/Paste options like there are for Windows VM's.
 
Me neither. ??? Parallels 7, Snow Leopard Host, Lion VM. Works as usual with a Windows guest, just not Lion. It's frustrating having to use Shared Folders. Which still doesn't address copy/paste. Is this being looked into? Is it working for others?

Thanks!
 
oh, and it should work 10.5 and 10.6 as well (guest OS), i shouldn't have to say that, but just covering my bases. I use 10.6 for regression testing, and to run all the apps that won't run on Lion, personally. Lack of copy/paste is a real productivity killer.
 
No solution, but I suggest you guys/gals go to the support page and file bug reports, to highlight the importance of the issue. I've done it.

It is kind of unbelievable at this day and age to claim support for an OS and leave such a basic feature out, but I guess they wanted to be the first to market. At least I am not getting crashes or lockups, so my guess is they made it stable and left the 'we're working on it' part unreleased to avoid countless bug reports on flakey copy/paste.

Not endorsing it, just saying.

Just hope they add it in a 7.0 update, soon.
 
Between the lack of Copy/Paste and the fact that shared folders are (apparently) only updated when the VM starts, I've had to resort to use DropBox to transferring files back and forth. Can someone from Parallels comment on when the situation will be improved? At least fix the sharing problem, since it is a supported feature...please?
 
Hi! Are there new updates for this?
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I am flabbergasted

Not being able to cut & paste from my Mountain Lion (ML) host onto my ML guest?

There is no share clipboard option on the guest configuration panel (ie. it's on the Advanced panel on other OS's).

Parallels tools on ML seems basically to provide shared folders and auto mouse control.

I have setup Screen Sharing via System Preferences on my guest ML and can cut and paste over the network (not a workable long term solution obviously).

Is it true that clipboard sharing is not available? If so, is it going to me made available?

PS. Flabbergast
 
Here we are on Parallels 7 and we STILL don't have cut and paste for Mac guest VM. Come on Parallels!! WTF?!
 
Hi!

New version of Parallels Desktop 8 supports copy-paste for Mac OS X guests. Also it has Coherence support for Mac guests including Mountain Lion.

Alexander
 
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