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[GNOME Boxes] Drag-n-drop between guest and host NOT working
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Problem

Drag and drop, or copy-paste does not work, a copy dialog is displayed for a brief period, but soon closes.

Details

Host: PureOS, latest updates installed, on Librem 13/15 v3
Guest: Windows 10, downloaded from MS website

PureOS has all spice related packages installed (but not the -dev ones). Still, the warning about missing spice library is noted in Boxes:

Event Timeline

mladen created this task.Jun 7 2019, 10:02
mladen closed this task as Wontfix.Jun 10 2019, 03:21
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mladen added a subscriber: jeremiah.foster.

The solution is: Windows requires spice-guest-tools to be installed for this to work. So this is not actually a bug with PureOS. Thanks @jeremiah.foster