So, you have clipboard sharing enabled and now want to share folder? If it still won’t work, remove the program and reinstall. Try copying something in your Windows Guest and paste it in your Host, it should work. The display might blinking a few times, so don’t worry about that. Step 2 – Run and install spice-guest-toolsĪfter the file is available on your Windows Guest, run and install the program. If you have no internet, you can download the file on a device with internet, then transfer it to your Windows Guest using USB storage which sadly won’t be covered here. Or easier, shortened URL: In my case, I opened the link on my Windows Guest, but internet is required for that.

Open the download page ( ) on your Windows Guest, scroll down a bit until you found Windows binaries under Guest, click the Windows guest tools link to start the download.

(Updated as 26th Oct) Step 1 – Download spice-guest-tools to Windows Guest It should be working for any SPICE remote viewer too such as Cockpit (tested). I am writing this tutorial based on virt-manager. The key to this tutorial is, install spice -guest-tools and Spice WebDAV daemon. I started with virt-manager and had no clipboard sharing enabled. It is quite confusing when you first started. I am currently running Ubuntu 20.04 as the Host and Windows 10 as the Guests. Main reason why I wanted to try because I want to move away from VirtualBox that I can never enable folder sharing, and VMWare which is paid. I found people talking about Qemu/KVM on Reddit, so I decided to try.

So here am I sharing the complete guide for you guys. 4.7 Step 7 – Verify the Folder Sharing is workingĬlipboard and folder sharing are usually an important feature to have when we run virtual machines.

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