[Spice-devel] windows guest file transfer

[Pavel Grunt]

Hi,

> 
> Hi John,
> 
> 
> John, for Pavel's new code, you would need spice-html5 from the most
> recent git tree; there is no release that contains it.
> 
> Pavel, let me know if you'd like me to do a release to fix that.
> 
I would wait, the file transfer is the only change since 0.1.5. Of course, it is up to you...
>
> If you wish to use spice-html5, you would  not use any clients; you
> would need a web server to serve up the html.  You would then need a
> host to run your guest environment; generally that would be qemu of
> some
> kind, or XSpice for pure Linux guests.
>

And for Windows guests I recommend to install spice guest tools (see http://www.spice-space.org/download.html ).

>
> Note that you may find the spice-html5 client unsatisfying; it's good
> for modest use for Linux guests.  But the gtk client is generally
> better, and is far better for Windows guests.
> 
I recommend to use virt-viewer / remote-viewer, especially with Windows guests. 

Best regards,

Pavel