[Spice-devel] Webdav on Windows XP

[Frediano Ziglio]

> On 7/31/20, Victor Toso <victortoso at redhat.com> wrote:
> > 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
> 
> Ah, yeah, I forgot to mention that script. For the short period of
> time in which the share was working, I had gotten it to work by
> manually adding it to File Explorer. That is, I tried running the
> script, got error 67, and then successfully added the share from the
> File Explorer GUI right after. The script - or, rather, the command
> "net use * http://localhost:9843", seems to always give:
> 
>   System error 67 occurred.
> 
>   The network name cannot be found.
> 
> When setting up spice-webdavd with Windows 10, I've had this error
> occur in cases when the service is not running. In this case, though,
> the service definitely is running, and SPICE is responding to
> http://localhost:9843 in browsers in the guest.
> 
> >
> >> >> 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.
> >
> > :)
> >
> 
> 

Being abandonware is difficult to find old updates and fixes.
You can try https://download.cnet.com/Software-Update-for-Web-Folders-KB907306/3000-2064_4-10753425.html ?

Frediano