I have a running Win10 guest created with VMM. Everything works fine except I cannot copy a folder from the host (Zorin) to the guest. Copy/paste for text and individual files works fine.
I tried to fix it using this article but got an error when I tried to start the guest. The error is "Error starting domain: operation failed: Unable to find a satisfying virtiofsd". Searching the web for the error yields nothing.
So I'm asking if my Zorin OS friends can help me get this functionality working. I cannot recreate the folder structure on the guest and copy individual files because the folder structure is too complex. If I can get this to work I'll be that much closer to nuking my dual boot setup. Thanks in advance.
Thanks but I did that. When I start the vm I get the error "Error starting domain: operation failed: Unable to find a satisfying virtiofsd". So I'm unable to install Winfsp and enable the service.
I tried installing the service in the vm first and then enabled Shared Memory and setup the filesystem but no joy.
I'm not sure but I think it's the virtiofsd package that's missing. I would've thought this is installed with virtual machine manager, so let's double check:
Great. That got me past the error when I launch the VM.
Now after installing WinFSP in the win10 guest, the VirtIO-FS service as described in the video is missing although I do have a service called Winfsp.Launcher that is running.
Still not working though. Looks like a Windows problem now. Troubleshooting that. Will let you know what I find unless you have any further suggestions.
thanks.
I've never ran Windows guests from KVM, so I don't know what else might be missing. With Linux distributions, enabling the shared memory and creating that virtual mount point is enough.
Maybe that video is already a little outdated? I'll try to look a bit more into it though I'll be out for the rest of the day.
OK I got it. I installed VirtIO-FS per the Video you posted.
I then downloaded Virtio-Win ISO. Mount the CD for the windows guest and run it inside the windows guest. It installs a bunch of drivers. After the installation the VirtIO-FS service was accessible. Still had to start the service and set it to load automatically. After that the virtual mount point was accessible from windows explorer.
I'm not sure if both VirtIO-FS and the Virtio-Win ISO both need to be run or if just running Virtio-Win ISO setup would have been sufficient but i wasn't going to uninstall everything just to find out since it's working.
Ah, yes that ISO thingy actually rings a bell... I think I might have read about it somewhere. Well, thanks for the update I'll make sure to bookmark this for future reference
