I’m having the hardest tine setting up a shared folder between a Linux host and Win11guest. I want to get rid of dual boot, but there are a few programs that I use which are Win only. I have set up a VB VM, but I want a fine tuned KVM VM. On VB sharing is trivial, but I can’t get it to work in KVM. I have the host sharing the folder with Samba, and can see it from another Linux VM, but not from windows. Any clues?

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    2 months ago

    I have the host sharing the folder with Samba, and can see it from another Linux VM, but not from windows

    Do you mean that it’s not automatically detected, or that you can’t connect to it even by name?

    What I use for folder sharing is virtiofs. It’s very similar to how vmware solves this. It does not need a shared network connection or anything, it’s a bit like if you passed through a speaker or a graphics card.
    No idea how it would be configured in your setup as I use it with proxmox, but if your setup runs a qemu command, you can edit its parameters, and you can set up a command that runs every time before the vm is started with that qemu command, I may be able to help you set it up, you just need to reply here telling that.