Just to be clear, copy-paste text between guest and host works. drag and drop text between guest and host does not work. In the case of files, neither copy-paste nor drag and drop work.
*Thanks and Best Regards,Ahmad Ismail* On Sat, May 13, 2023 at 5:10 PM Ahmad Ismail <ismail...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > The documentation says: > > Installing the Spice vdagent in your guest will let you copy and paste > between your guest and client OSes, to drag and drop files between the 2 > OSes, … In order for the agent to work, your virtual machine must have a > virtio serial device (and the corresponding guest drivers) as well as a > Spice spicevmc channel. > > It also says: > > Agent support allows better integration with the guest. For example, > it allows copy and paste between the guest and the host OSes, dynamic > resolution changes when the client window is resized/full-screened, file > transfers through drag and drop, … > > The agent is a daemon/service running in the guest OS so it must be > installed if it was not installed by default during the guest OS > installation. It also relies on a virtio-serial PCI device and a dedicated > spicevmc char device to achieve communication between the guest and the > host. These devices must be added to the virtual machine for the agent to > work in the guest. > > I have installed all the necessities in the guest. And then enabled the > services. > > sudo apt install qemu-guest-agent spice-vdagent spice-webdavd > > sudo systemctl start spice-vdagent > sudo systemctl enable spice-vdagent > > sudo systemctl start qemu-guest-agent > sudo systemctl enable qemu-guest-agent > > sudo systemctl start spice-webdavd > sudo systemctl enable spice-webdavd > > Started the vm with the following script. > > #!/bin/bash > > QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=spice > > qemu-system-x86_64 -accel kvm,thread=multi -cpu host -smp 2 -m 8192 \ > -drive > file=/media/ismail/SSDWorking/_QEMU/vm_mint.qcow2,format=qcow2,if=virtio \ > -machine vmport=off \ > -vga virtio -usb -device qemu-xhci -device usb-tablet \ > -soundhw hda \ > -spice port=5911,addr=127.0.0.1,disable-ticketing \ > -device virtio-serial-pci \ > -chardev spicevmc,id=spicechannel0,debug=0,name=vdagent \ > -device virtserialport,chardev=spicechannel0,name=com.redhat.spice.0 \ > -device > virtserialport,chardev=charchannel1,id=channel1,name=org.spice-space.webdav.0 > \ > -chardev spiceport,name=org.spice-space.webdav.0,id=charchannel1 \ > -chardev socket,path=/tmp/qga.sock,server=on,wait=off,id=qga0 \ > -device virtio-serial \ > -device virtserialport,chardev=qga0,name=org.qemu.guest_agent.0 \ > -daemonize > > remote-viewer --spice-shared-dir=/media/ismail/SSDWorking/_QEMU/VM_Share > spice://127.0.0.1:5911 > /dev/null 2>&1 & > > Now dynamic resolution changes work. However, drag and drop and copy-paste > between guest and host does not work. > > What might be the reason? > > > *Thanks and Best Regards,Ahmad Ismail* >
