Shared folder not working with WinXP guest

[ianlewisau]

Hi all,

I have installed UTM (latest) on 2 macbooks, one an Intel CPU and the other Apple M1. I've installed the same WinXP guest on both along with the Spice Guest Tools package. Everything works, seemingly with the exception of the shared folder. I can set the shared folder, but I don't see anything in the Computer view in the guest. This is the same on both hosts. (Why WinXP? It's because of a 16bit application that I still require.) The only way I've been able to transfer files is via USB, however this is a little tedious. My preference is to not enable network access for the WinXP guest as it's not required, and also due to the security issues with doing so. Does anyone have any thoughts as to what the issue might be?

[fastfading]

same issue , here , m1 chips
any one fix this ?

[ianlewisau]

I tried to start my formerly working WinXP and it no longer starts. I haven't updated UTM, so I'm not sure what has happened. I'm guessing some security change in a MacOs update since the last time I ran it, but I can't see anything in logs that give any hint as to what's going on. Looks like I might have to set up from scratch again.

[nikshilov]

Finally launched Sims 1 on m1 air. Solved spice tools did not helped at all, so I created a CDR image from a folder using Disk Utility and then applied the command below to get the ISO image, which you can easily inject into virtual cd-rom.

hdiutil makehybrid -iso -joliet -o -FILENAME.iso FILENAME.cdr

[gingerbeardman]

Also having this problem on XP and also 98SE (for some old old software).

[nonno]

Same problem with the shared folder, I tried also to do the workaround with a usb stick but Windows XP didn't recognize it.

[gingerbeardman]

I ended up buying a little PC to run my old XP and 98 VMs. Easier than workarounds for UTM.

[ianlewisau]

One way that works is to share a folder from XP and then attach to it from Finder on the Mac (connect to smb://your_utm_ip. It's not as convenient as the UTM folder sharing would be, but it works well enough.

[nonno]

It worked like charm, thank you so much @gingerbeardman. Sorry, I could have played with the settings but I was a bit worried to "break it" because at the beginning I also had issues while installing it 😅

[s4m13337]

I tried to connect this way but I am not able to connect as Guest. I tried using the windows xp's user account name and password, but that doesn't work either.

[nonno]

I don't connect as guest, but as Registered User, and on my virtual XP I only have the Administrator without password as user.

[iamyeizi]

Name: Administrator
Password: "don't type anything" (if you don't registered a password)
Press Connect

[mihaitodor]

Works OK, but you'll need to run the Windows file sharing wizard to set up a shared folder and, also, disable the Windows Firewall. The main issue is that the transfer speeds between the host and guest are quite slow...

[dayue1984]

same here, seems that the windows xp does not support the weddav service

[gingerbeardman]

Apparently XP does support WebDAV https://www.ibm.com/docs/el/b2b-integrator/5.2?topic=client-configure-webdav-windows-xp

[nonno]

In my case the service was already running at startup.

[finchco]

FWIW still having the same problem with a Windows 7 guest.

[matt-telum]

Here's what I did and it works. I followed the instructions given by @gingerbeardman and was able to get the connection made from my host (m1 macbook) to guest (xp VM on UTM) but I couldn't get it to work the other way. 2 stupid things I forgot to enable...

On Mac

Settings - Network - Advanced for the network you're connected to - WINS - set your workgroup to a name (you'll set the XP VM to the same one)
Settings - General - Sharing - File Sharing (turn on) - Options - Enable Windows file sharing (SMB). Set User/PW, done.

On XP,

it appears in My Network Places - Entire Network - Microsoft Windows Network - - - shares

hope this helps

[DougJoseph]

I had installed a fresh UTM VM guest instance of Windows XP Pro from an .iso, and installed the Spice Guest Tools. However, I had no connectivity at all between the host and the guest, neither clipboard, nor shared directory, or any network connections. I happened to stumble upon a mention in the guest OS that its settings were blocking all network access to and from. I was able to use a network setup 'wizard' in XP to make it so that a folder shared in the guest could be connected to on the host side via SMB. See pics. When I was asked to create a Workgroup name, I used the word "WORKGROUP."

However, I still have no copy and paste from host to guest via clipboard, and my 'shared directory' option in the UTM settings is not working.

I'm new to UTM and thankful for any advice. Can anyone advise me?

[thegushi]

To summarize:

• Lots of people are offering other solutions to share files (Helpful, if this isn't working for anyone, it's a docbug), here and in share folder don't work on mac m1 host , winxp x86 guest #3998
• Other than shared file support, there's no mention of if the tools support clipboard sharing. Other people here are mentioning that, and I'm not sure if they're related at all because the underlying API isn't made clear. (Docbug?)
• Spice-webdavd is crashing on startup for most people, usually with an error like "the system cannot find the file specified"
• There is no newer version of spice-webdavd that will fix any bugs (nor will there ever be unless it's forked), version 2.2 was the last to support windows XP.
• The "Services.msc" entry for SPICE VDAgent also shows as not running (perhaps it starts, runs once, and terminates -- I don't know the API enough to know if this is normal, but I have to believe it could be related). I also don't see a vdservice.exe process running in taskmgr. (Would this be enough to do it?) If clipboard sharing is supposed to be supported, this program not running would make sense as well.

If any developer wants to reach out to me, I'm happy to offer debug skills in any way I can, for example, if you want to help me build a debug version of the spice-webdavd server.

Some of us have a legitimate reason to continue needing this OS (for me, it's Java ILOMs), so a way forward would be useful -- or just fix the UTM page and say this isn't actually supported -- because saying it is supported, is making the user experience worse. I'm gushi at gushi dot org, please reach out.

[ianlewisau]

I was going to fire up my Windows XP UTM instance to test the clipboard sharing, but somehow my Windows XP has gone missing from the OSes list in UTM. I tried to open it from where it was stored, but it can't find a bootable image. I've had this happen before with UTM. Unfortunately it will probably be a new setup (again).