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
