Well, I am still with that problem, attempting to create shared folders, so I will try to be more specific and then maybe somebody can help me.<br><br>When I say &quot;I am trying to set up shared folders&quot;, I mean that I set this configuration in my XML description:<br>

<br>    &lt;filesystem type=&#39;template&#39; accessmode=&#39;mapped&#39;&gt;<br>      &lt;source name=&#39;/home/guilhermesgb/Desktop/SharedFolder/&gt;<br>      &lt;target dir=&#39;/home/tarciso/Desktop/SharedFolder&#39;/&gt;<br>

    &lt;/filesystem&gt;<br><br>This was my last attempt. I also tried all other combinations, with accessmodes &quot;passthrough&quot; and &quot;squash&quot;, for filesystem type &quot;mount&quot; too.<br><br>I can&#39;t send you any error messages neither printscreens because my problem is that anything happens, the domain is started properly but no shared folder is specified so I can mount it, using command &quot;sudo mount -t vboxsf SharedFolder /home/tarciso/Desktop/SharedFolder&quot;. I always get a protocol error.<br>

<br>I was expecting libvirt to automatically do this step for me, so I wouldn&#39;t need to do it manually through vbox GUI or VBoxManage.<br><br>During my searches through the web, I found this other option, although I can&#39;t be sure if it is implemented, as the libvirt website says nothing about it: defining an XML file with this configuration:<br>

<br>    &lt;shareddir fstype=&quot;ext4&quot; path=&quot;/home/guilhermesgb/Desktop/SharedFolder&quot; mount_tag=&quot;SharingName&quot; security_model=&quot;passthrough&quot; /&gt;<br><br>And then mounting it with proper command (the same as before, now with the mount_tag specified: &quot;sudo mount -t vboxsf SharingName /home/tarciso/Desktop/SharedFolder&quot; . Unfortunatelly the same error persists.<br>

<br>Am I missing something?<br><br>Sorry if my first message was hard to understand. Thanks.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/6/1 Guilherme Santos <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:guisgb13@gmail.com">guisgb13@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span><br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Good afternoon.<br><br>I am having trouble trying to set up shared folders in the guest VM using VirtualBox hypervisor. No matter what configuration is defined in my XML, it never works, I mean, no shared folder is added/specifyed, then, inside the guest, when I try to mount the folder, I always get a protocol error.<br>


<br>If I use VirtualBoxManage, I can add/specify shared folders easily and mount it with no problem.<br clear="all"><br>I need to use libvirt in order to deal, in a generalized way, with the process of creating shared folders in all hypervisors supported by libvirt, otherwise my problem would be solved already. I must not use specific commands of a certain hypervisor (such as VirtualBoxManage&#39;s).<br>


<br>How does libvirt allow me to set up shared folders? Does it use VirtualBoxManage for VBox hypervisors? If so, how do I use it?<br>I&#39;ve read the documentation and followed it in defining my XMLs.<br><br>Thanks anyway!<br>

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-- <br>Guilherme Santos G. Baptista<br>Undergraduate in Computer Science at UFCG<br>LSD - Distributed Systems Laboratory<br>
</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Guilherme Santos G. Baptista<br>Graduando em Ciência da Computação pela UFCG<br>LSD - Laboratório de Sistemas Distribuídos<br>