[virt-tools-list] Linux host / Windows guest sharing

[Jonathon Jongsma]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Laszlo Pal (private)" <vlad at vlad.hu>
> To: "Christophe Fergeau" <cfergeau at redhat.com>
> Cc: libvirt-users at redhat.com, virt-tools-list at redhat.com, "Jonathon Jongsma" <jjongsma at redhat.com>
> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 11:29:37 AM
> Subject: Re: [virt-tools-list] Linux host / Windows guest sharing
> 
> Thank you. The clipboard sharing working now. Do you have any idea for
> the mount issue? I suppose there is a way to share a specific directory
> between the guest and host like I did with vbox for example
> 
> What exact modules needed for this function?
> 
> The error message I've got this:
> 
> mount -t 9p -o trans=virtio,version=9p2000.L hostshare /tmp/hostfiles
> mount: special device hostshare does not exist
> 
> syslog:
> 9pnet_virtio: no channels available
> 
> my modules
> 
> 
> 9pnet_rdma             12966  0
> rdma_cm                42325  1 9pnet_rdma
> ib_core                74297  6
> rdma_cm,ib_cm,ib_sa,iw_cm,9pnet_rdma,ib_mad
> 9pnet_virtio           17519  0
> virtio_ring            19975  3 virtio_balloon,9pnet_virtio,virtio_scsi
> virtio                 14172  3 virtio_balloon,9pnet_virtio,virtio_scsi
> 9p                     54021  0
> 9pnet                  69248  3 9p,9pnet_rdma,9pnet_virtio
> fscache                62354  1 9p
> 
> 
> Thank you
> Vlad
> 


It appears that you're trying to run the mount command in your host. As far as I know (I've never really used this feature), you should be mounting the shared folder within the guest, but windows doesn't really support the 9p filesystem. Other alternatives include mounting a SMB share on both the host and the guest.  Spice also has basic support for file transfers from the host to guest (just drag and drop a file icon onto your virt-viewer window and it should automatically transfer it to the guest).  Marc-andre is also working on a webdav sharing feature for spice, but it's still in development.

Jonathon