How to share folder with Windows 10 guest using virt-manager (KVM)?

Question

These instructions for sharing host files with a guest are not working because there is no /usr/bin/qemu-kvm.

Solution 1

You can not add a shared folder in virt-manager like it is described in your article because the filesystem passthrough doesn't work well with a windows guest.

To solve your problem you have several options:

1. You can share a folder in the local network at your linux host system via SAMBA and access it over the windows filesystem directly.
2. You can use spice-webdav to share a folder like it is described in this article from Guy Rutenberg. This is not recommend for transferring large files.
3. If you only want to transfer data one or two times instead of having a permanent shared folder you can pack the data in your host system into a .iso file and add it in virt-manager as a disc to access it in the windows guest system.

Solution 2

To save people time this is full steps to make it happned download spice-webdav from here this is latest build :-

https://www.spice-space.org/download/windows/spice-webdavd/spice-webdavd-x86-latest.msi https://www.spice-space.org/download/windows/spice-webdavd/spice-webdavd-x64-latest.msi

Install it in the guest machine (use Brasero to create iso file) , after install check if

Spice webdav proxy” service is actually running (via services.msc) reff

Inside the guest machine run C:\Program File\SPICE webdavd\map-drive.bat to map your host shared folder, which is by default ~/Public

Comments

[Admin]

The page you linked also helps with folder sharing through virt-manager. But this relates to linux guests; windows guests do not seem to work this way (see unix.stackexchange.com/questions/86071/…)

[Admin]

What happens at the end? Does a new drive letter appear? It doesn't work in my case (Debian 11 as host and Win10 as guest). No errors but also no new drives.