[Spice-devel] Can not drag-drop or copy-paste between guest and host

[Ahmad Ismail]

I found the options

spice-vdagent -f "/home/ismail/Downloads"  -o 1

Thank you very much.


*Best Regards,Ahmad Ismail*


On Sun, May 14, 2023 at 1:20 AM Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Il giorno sab 13 mag 2023 alle ore 12:17 Ahmad Ismail
> <ismail783 at gmail.com> ha scritto:
> >
> > Just to be clear, copy-paste text between guest and host works. drag and
> drop text between guest and host does not work. In the case of files,
> neither copy-paste nor drag and drop work.
> >
> > Thanks and Best Regards,
> >
> > Ahmad Ismail
> >
> >
>
> Hi,
>    drag&drop from host to guest should work, not the opposite. Note
> that there's an option to pass to spice-vdagent to enable drag&drop
> (from host to guest).
>
> Frediano
>
> >
> > On Sat, May 13, 2023 at 5:10 PM Ahmad Ismail <ismail783 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> The documentation says:
> >>
> >>     Installing the Spice vdagent in your guest will let you copy and
> paste between your guest and client OSes, to drag and drop files between
> the 2 OSes, … In order for the agent to work, your virtual machine must
> have a virtio serial device (and the corresponding guest drivers) as well
> as a Spice spicevmc channel.
> >>
> >> It also says:
> >>
> >>     Agent support allows better integration with the guest. For
> example, it allows copy and paste between the guest and the host OSes,
> dynamic resolution changes when the client window is resized/full-screened,
> file transfers through drag and drop, …
> >>
> >>     The agent is a daemon/service running in the guest OS so it must be
> installed if it was not installed by default during the guest OS
> installation. It also relies on a virtio-serial PCI device and a dedicated
> spicevmc char device to achieve communication between the guest and the
> host. These devices must be added to the virtual machine for the agent to
> work in the guest.
> >>
> >> I have installed all the necessities in the guest. And then enabled the
> services.
> >>
> >> sudo apt install qemu-guest-agent spice-vdagent spice-webdavd
> >>
> >> sudo systemctl start spice-vdagent
> >> sudo systemctl enable spice-vdagent
> >>
> >> sudo systemctl start qemu-guest-agent
> >> sudo systemctl enable qemu-guest-agent
> >>
> >> sudo systemctl start spice-webdavd
> >> sudo systemctl enable spice-webdavd
> >>
> >> Started the vm with the following script.
> >>
> >> #!/bin/bash
> >>
> >> QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=spice
> >>
> >> qemu-system-x86_64 -accel kvm,thread=multi -cpu host -smp 2 -m 8192 \
> >> -drive
> file=/media/ismail/SSDWorking/_QEMU/vm_mint.qcow2,format=qcow2,if=virtio \
> >> -machine vmport=off \
> >> -vga virtio -usb -device qemu-xhci -device usb-tablet \
> >> -soundhw hda \
> >> -spice port=5911,addr=127.0.0.1,disable-ticketing \
> >> -device virtio-serial-pci \
> >> -chardev spicevmc,id=spicechannel0,debug=0,name=vdagent \
> >> -device virtserialport,chardev=spicechannel0,name=com.redhat.spice.0 \
> >> -device
> virtserialport,chardev=charchannel1,id=channel1,name=org.spice-space.webdav.0
> \
> >> -chardev spiceport,name=org.spice-space.webdav.0,id=charchannel1 \
> >> -chardev socket,path=/tmp/qga.sock,server=on,wait=off,id=qga0 \
> >> -device virtio-serial \
> >> -device virtserialport,chardev=qga0,name=org.qemu.guest_agent.0 \
> >> -daemonize
> >>
> >> remote-viewer
> --spice-shared-dir=/media/ismail/SSDWorking/_QEMU/VM_Share spice://
> 127.0.0.1:5911 > /dev/null 2>&1 &
> >>
> >> Now dynamic resolution changes work. However, drag and drop and
> copy-paste between guest and host does not work.
> >>
> >> What might be the reason?
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks and Best Regards,
> >>
> >> Ahmad Ismail
>
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