libvirt users - Mar 2014 - Re: [virt-tools-list] Linux host / Windows guest sharing

The spice-vdagent should be running in the guest. Have you installed the spice
guest tools in your windows guest?  Download them here:
http://www.spice-space.org/download.html

That should get clipboard sharing working.



----- Original Message -----
> From: "Laszlo Pal" <vlad@vlad.hu>
> To: libvirt-users@redhat.com, virt-tools-list@redhat.com
> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 10:16:50 AM
> Subject: [virt-tools-list] Linux host / Windows guest sharing
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm almost give up again because for a day I try to access my windows
> kvm guest from FC20 :)
> 
> I've tried everything including virtio mapping
> 
> mount -t 9p -o trans=virtio,version=9p2000.L hostshare /tmp/hostfiles
> 
> where I get the following messages
> 
> mount: special device hostshare does not exist
> 
> ---
> ---
> 
> to be honest clipboard sharing would be enough for me, so I googled
> why it is not working and I applied this:
> 
>
https://mytechdepot.wordpress.com/2013/02/22/enabling-clipboard-copy-paste-in-redhat-kvm/
> 
> yum install spice-vdagent
> # chkconfig --add spice-vdagentd
> # service spice-vdagentd start
> 
> but, the clipboard sharing isn't working....
> 
> Do you have any idea to solve any of the issues above?
> 
> Thank you
> Vlad
> 
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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


On Thu 20 Mar 2014 04:57:00 PM CET, Christophe Fergeau
wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 11:46:28AM -0400, Jonathon Jongsma wrote:
>> The spice-vdagent should be running in the guest. Have you installed
the spice guest tools in your windows guest?  Download them here:
http://www.spice-space.org/download.html
>>
>> That should get clipboard sharing working.
>
> You also need to have your VM configured to use SPICE, and to add the
> needed channel, see
> http://people.freedesktop.org/~teuf/spice-doc/html/ch02s05.html
>
> Christophe