[Spice-devel] Unable to share files from windows guest to the host

[Pavel Grunt]

On Sat, 2017-04-22 at 18:46 +0200, guide at boum.org wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We are working on a documentation that requires to use Windows in a
> virtual machine. We are migrating our documentation from VirtualBox
> to
> virt-manager.
> 
> We are trying to share files from a Windows 8 guest to the linux
> host,
> using virt-manager. We followed documentation to setup folder
> sharing at:
> 
> https://www.spice-space.org/spice-user-manual.html#_folder_sharing
> 
> Then, we launch C:\Program Files\SPICE webdavd\map-drive.bat (is
> this
> required?) 

no, it seems like you are using the old documentation (it was updated
few days ago). Do you use the latest spice webdavd ? 

> and we get the following error:
> 
>     net use * http://localhost:9843/
>     System error 67 has occured.
> 
>     The network name cannot be found.
> 
>     REG ADD
> "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints
> 2\##localhost at 9843#DavWWWRoot"
> /v "_LabelFromReg" /t REG_SZ /d "Spice client" /f
>     The operation completed successfully.
> 
> We don't know if we missed a step or encountered a bug. Is this
> supposed
> to work? Is there user documentation or an up-to-date tutorial we
> should
> follow? Could you give us hints?
> 
> Thanks by advance
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