Part 4: Spice Drag And Drop File Sharing
To enable drag and drop file sharing between your host and your virtual system you must install two Spice packages to your virtual system after it is up and running on your host. See the image below. In gnome-boxes these packages will also allow the GUI to scale and readjust your screen resolution to a full size window by logging in and out and back in again.
In Linux Lite you can see the message “Copying …. to Downloads” as soon as you try to drop the file from the file manager in your host to the desktop of your virtual system but the file copies to the desktop.
As you can see below it is not copied to /home/trinidad/Downloads in Thunar as indicated in the message. I’m not sure if this is normal behavior for Spice in Ubuntu, or if it is a Linux Lite, XFCE, or Ubuntu specific quirk. In any case the file can be dragged and dropped to the Linux Lite desktop. My other virtual systems are Debian 11 based: Bunsen Labs, LMDE, and Devuan; with Open-Box, Cinnamon and Trinity DEs respectively and both Bunsen Labs and LMDE copy the files to Downloads while Devuan Trinity reports copying the file but it does not copy it at all (seems to be a permission or configuration issue I have yet to find).
Image below for drag and drop file sharing from host to virtual system Linux Mint Debian Edition.
Image is in Downloads as reported and expected.
Bunsen Labs correctly reporting drag and drop file share to Downloads
File share is where it belongs.
Part 3: Use Gnome-Boxes As A Remote Client
Part 2: VNC Connect To Linux In Gnome-Boxes From Linux Running In Hyper-V
Part 1: VNC Connect To Linux In Hyper-V From Linux In Gnome-Boxes