[Spice-devel] Drag and Drop from Guest to Host

[Frediano Ziglio]

Il giorno mer 27 set 2023 alle ore 14:36 haibin wang <haibinwang at outlook.com>
ha scritto:

> Hi,
>
> I am using spice on my Linux Mint machine, and would like to ask a
> question about how drag and drop is supposed to work.
>
> Basically, I use qemu with spice agent installed on the guest.  Dynamic
> resolution changing works.  Copy and paste between the guest and the host
> works, both ways.  File transfer through drag and drop works from host to
> guest, though not from guest to host.
>
> Ubuntu (
> https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/man1/spice-vdagent.1.html),
> Debian (
> https://manpages.debian.org/testing/spice-vdagent/spice-vdagent.1.en.html),
> and Arch Linux (
> https://man.archlinux.org/man/spice-vdagent.1.en#:~:text=The%20spice%20guest%20agent%20for%20Linux%20consists%20of,desktop%20environments%20which%20honor%20%2Fetc%2Fxdg%2Fautostart%2C%20and%20under%20gdm.)
> all say that spice agent supports 'transferring files from the client to
> the agent', not mentioning the other way around.
>
> What I wanted to know was, if this one directional drag and drop works by
> design, or there is something I missed or misconfigured as it should work
> both ways, i.e., from host to guest as well as from guest to host.  Thank
> you.
>
> Best Regards,
> Haibin
>
> P.S.
> host: Linux Mint 21.2 Cinnamon 5.8.4
> Virtual Machine Manager 4.0.0
> qemu 6.2
> virt-viewer 7.0-2build2
> guest: Devuan Daedalus Linux 5
> vdagent: 0.22.1-3+b2
>

Hi Haibin,
   yes, currently drag&drop works one way only, from host to guest.

Regards,
   Frediano
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