Virt Manager - Share with Linux Guest

Virt Manager | مشاركة الملفات والنصوص مع الأجهزة الافتراضية

Virt Manager - Share with Linux Guest⚓︎

شرح مشاركة الملفات والنصوص - نسخ ولصق - بين الأجهزة الافترضية "الوهمية" والجهاز المضيف، كذلك الضبط التلقائي لدقة أبعاد شاشة الكمبيوتر الافتراضي، وإضافة خاصية سحب الملفات إلى الأجهزة الافترضية.

ClipBoard, Drag and Drop - مشاركة النصوص⚓︎

Debian - Ubuntu

sudo apt install spice-vdagent

Fedora

sudo dnf install spice-vdagent

Arch

sudo pacman -S spice-vdagent

NixOS

add the below line to configuration.nix

services.spice-vdagentd.enable = true;

Shared Folder - مشاركة الملفات⚓︎

Requirements⚓︎

qemu-kvm version 5.0 at least

qemu-kvm -version

On Host⚓︎

creat the folder you want to share
Open VM settings > Memory and enable shared memory or add:

<memoryBacking>
  <source type="memfd"/>
  <access mode="shared"/>
</memoryBacking>

Add Hardware and chose Filesystem:
- Driver virtiofs
- Source path /shared/folder/on/host
- Target path shared-folder-name-on-guest

Or add

<filesystem type="mount" accessmode="passthrough">
  <driver type="virtiofs"/>
  <source dir="/shared/folder/on/host"/>
  <target dir="shared-folder-name-on-guest"/>
  <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x07" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/>
</filesystem>

Start your VM

On Guest⚓︎

Creat a folder to mount the share

mkdir host-share

Run:

sudo mount -t virtiofs shared-folder-name-on-guest /path/to/mount/on/guest

auto mount

sudo nano /etc/fstab

append

shared-folder-name-on-guest  /path/to/mount/on/guest  virtiofs  defaults  0  0

or

echo "shared-folder-name-on-guest  /path/to/mount/on/guest  virtiofs  defaults  0  0" | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab

Mount

sudo mount -a

or

sudo reboot now

NixOS Guest⚓︎

sudo nano /etc/nixos/configuration.nix

  systemd.mounts = [
    {
      what = "shared-folder-name-on-guest";
      where = "/path/to/mount/on/guest";
      type = "virtiofs";
      wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
      enable = true;
    }
  ];

sudo nixos-rebuild switch

sudo reboot now