Bug 1444637

Summary:	RFE: support SPICE folder sharing
Product:	[Community] Virtualization Tools	Reporter:	Guide d'autodéfense numérique <guide>
Component:	virt-manager	Assignee:	Cole Robinson <crobinso>
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Description Guide d'autodéfense numérique 2017-04-23 14:01:53 UTC

Description of problem: we found no way to enable Spice folder sharing in virt-manager. However, it seems to be the only way to share files from a windows guest to the host system.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.4.0

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install windows virtual machine
2. open virtual machine details
3. click Add Hardware
4. select Channel
5. select Name: org.spice-space.webdav.0
6. click Finish
7. (re)start vitrual machine

Actual results: we found no way to enable folder sharing in the virt-manager Spice client.

Expected results: an option similar to virt-viewer File > Preferences > Folder sharing > Share folder.

Additional info: the option "Share folder" could be next to "Redirect USB device" in the Virtual Machine menu.

Comment 1 dw 2017-08-02 16:29:07 UTC

It would be great if virt-manager could support this -- switching to virt-viewer to share files is a bit silly.

https://www.spice-space.org/docs/manual/manual.chunked/ar01s10.html

makes it seem like folder sharing should work out of the box with virt-manager, but it doesn't.

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/spice-devel/2015-February/018896.html

seems relevant:

"""
There is a missing channel connect() in various clients.
For ex, virt-manager needs:
       elif (type(channel) == SpiceClientGLib.WebdavChannel):
            channel.connect()
"""

The relevant GUI options (folder picking, read-only) could be added to the "Channel spice-webdav" options.

So 1) connect the channel and 2) add the relevant options.

Comment 2 Cole Robinson 2020-09-16 21:34:39 UTC

We are stopping use of bugzilla.redhat.com for upstream virt-manager and moving to github issue. I filed this request here: https://github.com/virt-manager/virt-manager/issues/156