[Spice-devel] Webdav on Windows XP

[Victor Toso]

Hi,

On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 01:38:54PM -0400, Koopa Koopa wrote:
> On 7/30/20, Frediano Ziglio <fziglio at redhat.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I'm trying to setup a Windows XP SP3 virtual machine with SPICE folder
> >> sharing. The latest version, v2.4, fails to install, as the
> >> spice-webdavd service fails to start. Running spice-webdavd.exe
> >> manually yields the error message "The procedure entry point
> >> AcquireSRWLockExclusive could not be located in the dynamic link
> >> library KERNEL32.dll", which seems to be a deficiency in using XP [1].
> >> After some digging, I've determined that the cause of this is that,
> >> when starting the service, spice-webdavd calls g_mutex_lock from Glib
> >> [2], which had XP support removed a couple of years ago [3].
> >>
> >> Version v2.2, which comes from before the Glib change was made,
> >> successfully installs and runs. I have been able to map and somewhat
> >> use a network drive mapped to the share, but it has broken and I can't
> >> seem to get it working again; Windows just says that "The network path
> >> http://localhost:9843 could not be found." Strangely enough, when
> >> going to that address in Mypal, the share directory is displayed
> >> without any issues, and I can browse it.
> >>
> >
> > The purpose of spice-webdavd is to provide the port to be able to use
> > webdav from the guest. If another program is able to use it I would
> > try to understand why Windows cannot.
> >
> > Just to confirm, using netstat in the guest can you see the port (9843)
> > in listening state?
> 
> Yep, that port is in the listening state.
> 
> > Is the Windows XP service running?
> 
> Yes, it is, and I have tried restarting it.
> 
> In further testing, the share works perfectly fine with the free
> BitKinex client, but I still can't get it to work again as a mapped
> drive in Windows at all. Since it continues to work without any issues
> in the 3rd party programs I have tried, I'm inclined to believe that
> the issue is not at all with spice-webdavd. It seems like either an XP
> bug or misconfiguration of my (clean) installation. In any case, I'm
> exploring other options for host/guest file sharing, as I can't seem
> to resolve this.

Sorry if I missed in case you have done it before, but I think
you have to run the map-drive.bat script

	https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/phodav/-/blob/master/bin/map-drive.bat

> >> If this configuration is not supported, I totally understand. Part of
> >> why I want to point this out is so that, at the very least, this
> >> incompatibility could be added to the Spice User Manual [4]. Thanks!
> >>
> >
> > I would avoid it, Microsoft stopped supporting XP more than 6 years
> > ago. Windows XP is abandonware.
> 
> Yeah, I have a Windows 10 VM that I use for most things, it's just
> that I have a program which requires Windows XP in order to function.

:)
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