Drag-and-Drop Requirements and Restrictions

The drag-and-drop feature has certain requirements and restrictions.

• You must install VMware Tools in a virtual machine to use the drag-and-drop feature.
• The drag-and-drop feature requires Linux hosts and guests to run X Windows and Solaris 10 guests to run an Xorg X server and JDS/Gnome.
• You can drag images between applications on Windows hosts and applications on Windows guests only. Dragging images is not supported for Linux hosts or guests.
• You can drag files and directories, email attachments, plain text, and formatted text between Linux and Windows hosts and Linux, Windows, and Solaris 10 guests only.
• Dragging email attachments is restricted to images or files smaller than 4 MB.
• Dragging plain text and formatted text (including the formatting) is restricted to amounts less than 4 MB.
• Dragging text is restricted to text in languages that can be represented by Unicode characters.
• Workstation Player uses the PNG format to encode images that are dragged. Dragging images is restricted to images smaller than 4 MB after conversion to PNG format.