How to share folders in Gnome Boxes?

MTech

Greetings. I am playing around with Solus KDE in gnome boxes and I've tried to share folders with the host (Solus Gnome). I've google it and the gnome boxes need spice-webdavd which is not in solus repository. I've tried with samba also, create folder on host and make it shareable but no luck.
Any other way?

remoof

MTech I think I found what you are looking for, its called spice and not "spice-webdavd" in the repos.

sudo eopkg install spice

MTech

remoof Nope. I've tried that before. But thanks for your suggestion.

MTech

When I install Fedora in gnome boxes, as soon as I install spice-webdavd (sudo dnf --refresh install spice-webdavd) in fedora I can share folders. So this is definitively missing in solus. But nevermind I will try virtualbox.

tomocafe

I use qemu VMs for development and also ran into roadblocks getting shared folders working. Instead of going through gnome-boxes, I was using virt-manager to set up shared folders by adding a 9p type filesystem, per instructions here: http://nts.strzibny.name/how-to-set-up-shared-folders-in-virt-manager/

I think when Solus is a guest, it lacks support for this type of filesystem. At least when I tried to mount it, it said I was missing then /sbin/mount.xxx for that particular type.

It's on my to-do list to figure this out, when I find something out, I'll try to remember to update this thread.

MTech

Please do. I've installed solus kde on virtualbox, but virtualbox is looking awful on gnome dark skins and also I was not able to share folder. I follow this page (https://getsol.us/articles/software/virtualbox/en/) to add vboxsf on the guest operating system. The folder is there but there's nothing inside and it should be. I remember the same thing was with budgie solus few months ago.