pandruszkow
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2 years ago - Shared folders (Linux): covered by the 9p mount instructions
- Shared folders (Windows): not natively supported?
- Option 1: SMB/FTP/WebDAV share. This should work natively, but not tested yet.
- Option 2: RDP shared directory. This should dovetail nicely with the RDP-based seamless mode solution.
- Option 3: QEMU's built-in Samba service: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/183609
- Option 4: Exchange data with the VM via cloud storage, such as OneDrive. This is the current solution.
- Option 5: Use Windows's built-in NFS support (how reliable is this?): http://rostislav-matl.blogspot.com/2020/06/sharing-files-from-linux-to-windows-vm.html
- Option 6: Exchange data with the VM via R/W, mountable disk images. This is a fallback solution that should always work at least in the host->guest direction.
virt-copy-inandvirt-copy-outare one way of doing that with .qcow2 images (requires packagelibguestfs-toolson Ubuntu 20.04)
- Shared folders (both, improved): see https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/635636
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This looks more complicated but with potentially better payoff than 9p for Linux. It seems to be available for Windows too, but I should trial that configuration more cautiously.
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- Guest copy/paste (Windows guests): https://github.com/Fmstrat/winapps
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Guest copy/paste (Linux): pending - X11 forwarding should handle it, but not tested yet
- Guest seamless mode (Windows): https://github.com/Fmstrat/winapps
- Guest seamless mode (Linux): pending - X11 forwarding should handle it, but not tested yet
It's getting long in tooth, even though it's served me well over the years. Virt-Manager has been confirmed as a viable successor, and it's crazy fast because it supports virtio/KVM drivers for Windows. As a bonus, sessions start detached by default.
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libvirt,kvm), software installation on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS