[Spice-devel] Drag-n-drop for directories

[Victor Toso]

Hi,

On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 12:07:47PM -0500, Carlos González wrote:
> I see...
> 
> So out of the impractical difficulties it would imply, drag-and-dropping
> directories and files in general from guest to host has never been for
> consideration...
> 
> Ouch, pity... Guess VirtualBox is still a technology with less limitations,
> for it does support the above with no problems. This would actually be an
> excellent addition for RedHat customers as well, since despite already

s/RedHat/Red Hat/

> existing the folder sharing method, dragging would make life even slightly
> easier.

Folder sharing is not in RHEL, nor in RHEV (windows).

    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1462813

If you are a customer, feel free to reach out and request this
feature so it can be prioritized accordingly.

> I don't rely on folder sharing neither in Spice nor VirtualBox -though I
> have tested them-; at most what I've had to do is compressing the whole
> directory to make it a single file, then dragging it to guest.
> 
> For large contents I have even preferred USB stick passthrough...

Shared folder works well from my testing. As it uses WebDAV,
Windows and Linux Guests do have OS integration with it as remote
network folder, which is nice.

Copying a folder with D&D is not exactly stalled, work is in
progress to make that happen, but takes time.

Thanks for raising those questions,
Cheers

> El vie., 21 sept. 2018 a las 2:14, Victor Toso (<victortoso at redhat.com>)
> escribió:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 04:22:18PM -0500, Carlos González wrote:
> > > Drag and dropping files from host to guest as copying method already
> > works.
> > > But, by chance, are there any plans to support the same for
> > > folders/directories?
> >
> > RFE: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1196572
> >
> > You can use shared-folders Today instead. See folder sharing at
> >
> >     https://www.spice-space.org/spice-user-manual.html
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
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