Copy between 10.9 host and guest in Parallels I have been using Parallels 9 no problem for quite a while for .Net development in Windows. I have recently changed over to working on OS X applications, and as such, I am using Xamarin.Mac.

As a part of our dev cycle, we have to test. In doing this, I spun up a Mavericks VM, and installed Parallels Tools, updates and created a "Clean Slate" snapshot.

The only problem is I can't get files to and from the VM at all.

The first method I tried was the usual old ⌘ + c and ⌘ + p options to no avail, getting the following response;



In addition to this, I mounted my local home directory (enabled by default) and tried to copy the item over. I could browse the directory fine, but on copy, I got the following information;



Is there some sort of incompatibility with copying between an OSX host and its OSX guest?
you have to update your parallels tools, to do so as i remember you have to select Window install parallels tools, then follow the on screen instructions