As Oracle VM VirtualBox can run on a variety of host operating systems and also supports a wide range of guests, certain data formats must be translated after transfer. This is so that the destination operating system, which receives the data, is able to handle them in an appropriate manner.
When dragging files no data conversion is done in any way. For example, when transferring a file from a Linux guest to a Windows host the Linux-specific line endings are not converted to Windows line endings.
The following formats are handled by the Oracle VM VirtualBox drag and drop service:
Plain text: From applications such as text editors, internet browsers and terminal windows.
Files: From file managers such as Windows Explorer, Nautilus, and Finder.
Directories: For directories, the same formats apply as for files.