My issue is that i am adviced to inport or drag and drop files in to the virtual machnes folders for the different robot sizes and for some reason i cant do it. I also cant find anny deeper information on what settings i can change to allow this in the computer. All i find is instructions to set the advanced settings of the virtual machine to allow drag and drop to the machine.
All other instructions ends here.
Does annyone have anny way to fix this or go about it some other way?
I am an automation technichan versed in electrical systems, sensors and PLC systems. PC-baced systems and applications is not my fiels of expertiece so i dont know where to turn with this.
Was this a fresh install of VirtualBox? you may need to install the VirtualBox Additions, the menu for the disk drive should have an option to mount additions ‘CD’
Hi,
Yes its a new installment, i have not seen anny instructions about installing anny additions in the UR guide, thats why it has not been done. Im also on that path, thinking that is what i am missing.
I think what i need next is information on how to start the installation. If i open the folder in the virtual environment and try to run a .run file i get prompted that i need admin permissions. i think that mean i need to call it from a command window as “sudo”, but i dont know how to do that correctly at the moment.
Do you know how to write the command line to get correct adressing?
Have you tried copy and paste instead? I have never had much luck using drag and drop in virtual machines, but it usually works just to ctrl + c → ctrl + v.
Hello,
Thanks for the advice but the functions to allow “drag and drop” are tied together with the function so “Share clipboard” for coppy and paste. So none of them wrks sadely at the moment.
Are you using virtual box or do you use some other software for the virtual environment?
I have been serching a few times now and found no good information on this problem so im starting to think its virtual box that is just a bad virtual environment to use.
I did try VirtualBox once many years ago, but I couldn’t get copy-paste to work, either. Which actually was why I decided to use VMWare instead.
And VMWare has worked fine until recently, when Broadcom bought the rights to it …
But if you can get your hands on VMWare Workstation Player (17 or 16), then it should work just fine.
Thanks, i finally managed to run the command.
It actually semes like it has helped a bit, i can now drag the files over the virtual PC without it throwing an error.
Issue now is that i can not dropp the files to it, the folders does not allow it for some reason and gives me no error message this time. I believe the virtual machine does not let the host have acces to its folders.
