vdagent drag and drop question

[ToddAndMargo]

On 5/28/24 00:01, Victor Toso wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 12:22:54PM GMT, ToddAndMargo wrote:
>> On 5/27/24 08:07, Victor Toso wrote:
>>> On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 12:58:41AM GMT, ToddAndMargo wrote:
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> Host:
>>>>      Fedora 39
>>>>      spice-server-0.15.1-3.fc39.x86_64
>>>>      spice-glib-0.42-3.fc39.x86_64
>>>>      spice-gtk3-0.42-3.fc39.x86_64
>>>>      spice-vdagent-0.22.1-6.fc39.x86_64
>>>>      qemu-kvm-8.1.3-5.fc39.x86_64
>>>>
>>>> VM:
>>>>      Windows 11 23H2
>>>>      Virtio-win-driver-installer 0.1.240
>>>>      Virtio-win-guest-tools  0.1.240
>>>>
>>>> I can drag and drop a file from my Linux host to a
>>>> qemu-kvm Windows 11 virtual machine but I can not
>>>> do it in reverse
>>>>
>>>> What am I doing wrong?
>>>
>>>   From Guest to Client, drag-and-drop does not work.
>>>   From Client to Guest, it should. The data of the file is copied
>>> by the client (e.g: spice-gtk) and provided to the guest agent
>>> which creates the file with the contents.
>>
>> That explains it.  Thank you.
>>
>> Is there a file sharing option somewhere (other
>> that Samba)?
> 
> In SPICE? We have also webdav channel, it requires spice-webdavd
> daemon running in the guest plus the client being build with
> phodav option enabled.
> 
> Other than that, it depends on what you are using to manage the
> VM. QEMU has quite a few options, the most popular nowadays is
> virtiofs I think
> 
>      https://libvirt.org/kbase/virtiofs.html
> 
> Cheers,
> Victor

Thank you!