KEY POINT: Once you have set up a shared folder, you can then do regular file-copying in a Windows Explorer view on the host PC, even if the source is on host and the destination is on VM, or vice-versa.
How? Network sharing aka 'Share a folder over a network'. This answer is NOT about that.)Īlso see these other answers relevant to copy/paste files, in specific situations:įor initial setup before starting your VMįiles can be copy/pasted between a MAC and a PC, or a LINUX box and a PC, and the same technique can be used between a virtual machine (even using 'Version 1', to run older Windows, in my case Windows 7) and its host PC. (The SECOND part asks how to copy/paste TEXT e.g.
THIS is an answer to that part of the question. The FIRST part asks 'How to COPY-PASTE FILES'.
