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

[Uri Lublin]

On 04/23/2017 12:51 PM, guide at boum.org wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> You should enable the shard folder through the client's menu & make
>> sure the spice-webdav service is running in the guest, than you
>> should be able to mount it by running the "C:\Program Files\SPICE
>> webdavd\map-drive" file.
>> (will show up as V:\ or W:\)
> 
> We already tried that, but it is not working. What we did:
> 
> 1. From a fresh Windows 8.1 install
> 2. Install spice-guest-tool-latest.exe from:
> https://www.spice-space.org/download/windows/spice-guest-tools/spice-guest-tools-latest.exe
> 3. Install spice-webdav-x64-latest.msi from
> https://www.spice-space.org/download/windows/spice-webdavd/spice-webdavd-x64-latest.msi
> 4. Shut down the virtual machine
> 5. In virt-manager:
> 	a. Add Hardware --> Channel
> 	b. As name select org.spice-space.webdav.0
> 	c. As device type select Spice port
> 	d. Aplly changes
> 6. Power on the machine

Hi,

The documentation states that "By default folder sharing is disabled"
(As Snir mentioned above, one needs to enable it on the client)
6.5 run remote-viewer spice://host:port and enable folder sharing,
     and choose a directory to share, via File->Preferences menu.

> 7. Verify that spice-webdav service is running
> 7. From the Command line, we run: C:\Program File\SPICE
> webdavd\map-drive.bat
>