[Spice-devel] access local files and folder from remote VM

[Alon Levy]

On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 11:04:54PM -0500, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-01-01 at 10:57 +0800, Charles.Tsai-蔡清海-工程部 wrote:
> > Hi John,
> > 
> > Thank you for information. I searched the information of sshfs. In Microsoft windows, I found an open source for it and it is basically a user mode file system.
> > As for the X2GO, it is basically a remote desktop connection utility which is similar what SPICE does.
> > 
> > I could not catch your points how you can you in slot SPICE in the place of NX? Can tell me where I can find the information/article regarding this? Also, it is my doubt why the dokan(sshfs) cannot work with SPICE? Can the SPICE use existing channel for instance "main channel" to send the local files system information to the guest OS? Any problem with this implementation approach?
> <snip>
> Hello, Charles.  <grin> There is no documentation on integrating SPICE
> and X2Go; it would be a new initiative.  It may be possible to do it in
> a SPICE channel but since I am more of an integrator and not a developer
> at all, that is not something I would attempt.  Good luck with your
> endeavors - John

Regarding the filesystem over Spice, You could create a new channel and
use it for that. You can follow the footsteps of the USB channel
recently added, it introduced an opaque channel (server/spicevmc.c)
which the client and guest/qemu can use. For usb it is used between the
usb device in qemu and the client, it can as easily be used between a
guest and the client, the guest running sshfs over it. Although I guess
the encryption part would be really redundant if you use a secure spice
channel.

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