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

[Robert Grasso]

 From my Ubuntu repository :

virt-manager : 1:1.3.2
virt-viewer:  1.0

Looks like I am going to compile the sources !

Thank you Pavel !

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On 31/05/2017 14:37, Pavel Grunt wrote:
> Hello,
>
> considering that you are using Ubuntu chances are high that you have
> an old version of spice-gtk and virt-viewer. You must have at least:
>
> virt-viewer 3.0 (released in 2015)
> spice-gtk v0.28 (released in 2015) (built with webdav support)
>
> and then you use remote-viewer or virt-viewer to connect to you
> virtual machine. Click on File -> Preferences and select the folder
>
> Best regards,
> Pavel
>
> On Wed, 2017-05-31 at 14:06 +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 !
>>
>> 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
>>
>> Now :
>> - from this manual, I do not see where I can find this : "Use the
>> remote-viewer "File" → "Preferences" menu to enable it"
>> - 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;
>> - 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.
>>
>> The network name cannot be found.
>>
>>
>> C:\WINDOWS\system32>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.
>> 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
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