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Shared folder support is lacking. I have to use NFS to share any folders in VMs when using QEMU and virt-manager. Which isn’t necessarily bad but it’s an extra config step. The built in method (which uses Plan9 I think?) is a huge headache in terms of setting up permissions. Out of the box it never works right and there isn’t any straightforward documentation on getting it configured properly.

VirtualBox, VMware and Parallels all offer much better shared folder options that are built in.




virtio-fs should fix the problems with 9p. It offers better performance and conformance with POSIX.


Awesome, that's great to hear.


There's a built in method? I've been using virt-manager/libvirtd/qemu for a while now and haven't run across it...


In virt-manager if you go to Add Hardware -> Filesystem it lets you add a shared folder there.


Thanks!




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