I cant share a shared folder in virt-manager/gnome-boxes

I’m trying to use Virt-Manager in my Opesuse Tumbleweed (PC and Laptop). I have installed a Windows MV with spice-guest-agent and spice-webdav installed. (i did some test with Fedora too)

I tried to share a folder with remote-viewer but it’s disabled, I can’t tick any option.
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Then I tried to do the same with gnome-boxes, and I got no folder options (I cant attach a image by I exced size Post)

I tried to repeat in a Fedora MV Nested (gnome-boxes + virt-manager MV ) and I have found no problems with the same test, I can share a folder both programs, so I guess It’s need to install some package to get it work.

Any idea?

Thanks!!

I have the exact same issue. Has anyone actually solved this. It’s a bit hard to debug, could this be a apparmor policy?

Don’t know about Gnome Boxes,
But I wrote the following awhile back that describes how to share a file system between HostOS and Guest using libvirt.
Should still work exactly as written today.

https://en.opensuse.org/User:Tsu2/virtfs#Overview

Note that the above is sharing a <file system>, not creating something like a network share, so the protocol and data transfer should be completely internal to the system.

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I’m running a Win 10 guest so this does not work. I know I can set up samba, but this seems really to be overkill for occasionally sharing a file.

The Wiki article I created describes what is done in the HostOS.
Once configured, you wouldn’t mount the shared folder in the Guest as I described (That’s only for a Linux Guest), last I checked you should see it in as a Windows Networking share (In the bottom of your Win10 File Explorer).
If you don’t see it there, describe what you do find down there and post again.

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Hi
I just use winscp to move files, but my VM has a separate IP address, not NAT.

Seems you can do it with spice-webdavd running on the host.

WinSCP (and SCP on Linux) can be used on systems using libvirt, it’s only Virtualbox Manager that sets up Guests to share the HostOS IP address.
But, it does mean you’ll have to do a bit of work discovering or determining IP addresses (unlikely name resolution will work without special work) before you can execute commands.

I wouldn’t use a webdav solution, not only is it a bit of overkill, it’d also be more complex than necessary so would be subject to more chances of failure over time… And, that’s not even mentioning that webdav in general has a history of vulnerabilities that need to be patched. WebDAV is very cool for situations where the benefits outweigh the work but are more typically a Server supporting multiple clients.

The attractiveness of the shared file system I describe is its simplicity… It doesn’t require networking to be enabled, and isn’t even exposed through network sockets AFAIK(Hope nothing has changed since I last looked).

IMO,
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