Editing Share folder between guest and host

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==Share Folder Between Guest and Host in virt-manager (KVM/Qemu/libvirt)==
===Host directory===
 mkdir /path/to/directory/of/host/machine
===Edit VM's XML===
This article explains how to share a folder using virsh-edit from host machine in a guest
 virsh destroy <guest><ref>Stops VM</ref>
 virsh edit <guest><ref>Edit VM's configuration XML File</ref>
<syntaxhighlight lang="xml" >
<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>
</syntaxhighlight>
===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

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[[Category:libvirt]]
[[Category:Linux]]