To use the Guest Control File Manager to transfer files, follow these steps.

1. Ensure you have the username and password for an account on the guest system, with appropriate permissions on the files you need to access.

2. Open the Guest Control File Manager. Do either of the following:

   • In the guest VM, select Machine, File Manager.

   • In , click the machine name. Click File Manager in the machine tools menu for the VM.

   The Host File System pane shows the files on the host system.

3. In the Guest File System pane, enter the User Name and Password for the user you want to log in as.

   Click Open Session.

   The VM file system appears in the Guest File System pane.

4. To transfer from the VM to the host, select the file(s) and click Copy From Guest to Host.

   To transfer from the host to the VM, select the file(s) and click Copy From Host to Guest.

5. Check the progress of the transfer in the Operations pane.

6. Click Close to end the guest session and the Guest Control File Manager.