Share folder between guest and host

Share Folder Between Guest and Host in virt-manager (KVM/Qemu/libvirt)

This article explains how to share a folder using virsh-edit from host machine into a guest

Host directory

mkdir /path/to/directory/of/host/machine

Edit VM's XML

virsh destroy <guest>
virsh edit <guest>

<filesystem type="mount" accessmode="passthrough">
  <driver type="virtiofs"/>
  <binary path="/usr/libexec/virtiofsd"/>
  <source dir="/path/to/directory/of/host/machine"/>
  <target dir="user_frendly_name_goes_here"/>
  <alias name="fs1"/>
  <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x08" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/>
</filesystem>

Mount shared folder into guest machine

virsh start <guest>
mkdir /path/to/shared/folder/to/bo/mount
mount -t virtiofs user_frendly_name_goes_here /path/to/shared/folder/to/bo/mount

Note

All those commands should be run by user root, or using sudo