I found the options spice-vdagent -f "/home/ismail/Downloads" -o 1
Thank you very much. *Best Regards,Ahmad Ismail* On Sun, May 14, 2023 at 1:20 AM Frediano Ziglio <fredd...@gmail.com> wrote: > Il giorno sab 13 mag 2023 alle ore 12:17 Ahmad Ismail > <ismail...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > > > > 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 > > > > > > Hi, > drag&drop from host to guest should work, not the opposite. Note > that there's an option to pass to spice-vdagent to enable drag&drop > (from host to guest). > > Frediano > > > > > 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 >
