[Spice-devel] shared folders in Windows with QEMU/KVM ?

Wed May 31 12:43:09 UTC 2017

Hi,

On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 02:32:37PM +0200, Victor Toso wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 02:06:42PM +0200, Robert Grasso wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am a senior Linux sysadmin, and I am just discovering QEMU/KVM at home,
> > where I am using Virtualbox on Ubuntu 16.04. So far, I must say I like it !
> > Many years ago, Qemu was a pain : it is a miracle, the improvement is
> > unbelievable ! My warmest congratulations to everybody who has worked so
> > hard !
> 
> Awesome :)
> 
> >
> > At work, I am administering VSphere and VMware Workstation.
> >
> > So far, I am not digging into QEMU/KVM internals, rather discovering it as
> > an end-user (just to try and see if I can advertise it at work, for my
> > non-IT users)
> >
> > I imported successfully an Ubuntu 16.04 vm from VB to QEMU/KVM, and I can
> > drag-and-drop a file from the host to the VM : amazing !
> >
> > I imported successfully my Windows 7 guest and my Windows 10 guest (some
> > filesystem issues with Windows 7 which I fixed, none with Windows 10),
> > installed the spice guest tools in both from here :
> >
> > https://www.spice-space.org/download/windows/spice-guest-tools/spice-guest-tools-latest.exe
> >
> > and I can resize the display nicely.
> >
> > I am having an issue with the shared folders, which "do not work" : what I
> > did :
> >
> > - in virt-manager, I enabled the channel org.spice-space.webdav.0
> > - in the guest, I installed space-webdavd from here :
> > https://www.spice-space.org/download/windows/spice-webdavd/
> >
> > - I read
> > Spice User Manual
> > https://www.spice-space.org/spice-user-manual.html
> 
> Yes, all looks correct.
> 
> >
> > Now :
> > - from this manual, I do not see where I can find this : "Use the
> > remote-viewer "File" → "Preferences" menu to enable it"
> 
> I think the spice-gtk package in ubuntu does not have the shared folder
> enabled by default. The option would be --enable-webdav and it depends
> on libphodav and higher versions of glib and libsoup.
> 
> Well, at least it does not seem to depend on libsoup for instance
> https://packages.ubuntu.com/yakkety/libspice-client-glib-2.0-dev

** https://packages.ubuntu.com/yakkety/libspice-client-glib-2.0-8

>
> > - I do not find which command provides the option --spice-share-dir : man -K
> > spice-share-dir does not yield any result, whereas man -K spice does; and I
> > guess I installed almost every (?) available virt* and qemu* package from
> > the Ubuntu repository;
>
> --spice-share-dir comes from spice-gtk command line options, if its not
> present in spice clients such as remote-viewer, virt-viewer,
> virt-manager, etc its likely that the spice-gtk that is being used does
> not have shared folder support built in

It is spice-shared-dir and it does not depend on --enable-webdav
configure option... you should be able to see it if you do --help-all or
--help-spice

Cheers,


> 
> > - in Windows (7 and 10) with an elevated cmd.exe : this bad thing happens :
> >
> >    C:\WINDOWS\system32>"c:\Program Files\SPICE webdavd\map-drive.bat"
> >
> >    C:\WINDOWS\system32>net use * http://localhost:9843/
> >    System error 67 has occurred.
> 
> With the latest version of spice-webdavd you don't need to run
> map-drive.bat. As soon as you enable the shared folder in remote-viewer
> (for instance) it will be mounted in the guest
> 
> >
> >    The network name cannot be found.
> >
> >    C:\WINDOWS\system32>REG ADD
> >    "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2\##localhost at 9843#DavWWWRoot"
> >    /v  "_LabelFromReg" /t REG_SZ /d "Spice client" /f
> >    The operation completed successfully.
> >
> > even if the Spice proxy service is running, as far as I remember - I even
> > disabled the firewall.
> > and in the Event Viewer (7 and 10) I see regular occurrences of :
> >
> >    Faulting application name: spice-webdavd.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time
> >    stamp: 0x58e61b16
> >    Faulting module name: libglib-2.0-0.dll, version: 2.50.1.0, time
> >    stamp: 0x695f011a
> >    Exception code: 0xc0000005
> >    Fault offset: 0x000000000004e5e5
> >    Faulting process id: 0x75c
> >    Faulting application start time: 0x01d2d9ff6cdd440f
> >    Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\SPICE
> >    webdavd\bin\spice-webdavd.exe
> >    Faulting module path: C:\Program Files\SPICE
> >    webdavd\bin\libglib-2.0-0.dll
> >    Report Id: 07337de2-e137-49b3-94be-870db95ed5a9
> >    Faulting package full name:
> >    Faulting package-relative application ID:
> >
> > Can anybody help ? Is this feature publicly available, or is it still in
> > development, or stalled, or dropped ?
> >
> > Best regards
> 
> Feature works well in linux and windows guests but its not heavily used
> yet AFAIK.
> 
> Your problems seems only the client side, the rest is ok.
> If you make it work and find bugs, let us know!
> 
> Cheers,
>     toso
> 
> 
> >
> > -- 
> > Robert Grasso
> > @home
> > ---
> > UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because
> >   that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn
> > 
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