> > Hi all, > > I'm trying to setup a Windows XP SP3 virtual machine with SPICE folder > sharing. The latest version, v2.4, fails to install, as the > spice-webdavd service fails to start. Running spice-webdavd.exe > manually yields the error message "The procedure entry point > AcquireSRWLockExclusive could not be located in the dynamic link > library KERNEL32.dll", which seems to be a deficiency in using XP [1]. > After some digging, I've determined that the cause of this is that, > when starting the service, spice-webdavd calls g_mutex_lock from Glib > [2], which had XP support removed a couple of years ago [3]. > > Version v2.2, which comes from before the Glib change was made, > successfully installs and runs. I have been able to map and somewhat > use a network drive mapped to the share, but it has broken and I can't > seem to get it working again; Windows just says that "The network path > http://localhost:9843 could not be found." Strangely enough, when > going to that address in Mypal, the share directory is displayed > without any issues, and I can browse it. > The purpose of spice-webdavd is to provide the port to be able to use webdav from the guest. If another program is able to use it I would try to understand why Windows cannot. Just to confirm, using netstat in the guest can you see the port (9843) in listening state? Is the Windows XP service running? > If this configuration is not supported, I totally understand. Part of > why I want to point this out is so that, at the very least, this > incompatibility could be added to the Spice User Manual [4]. Thanks! > I would avoid it, Microsoft stopped supporting XP more than 6 years ago. Windows XP is abandonware. > [1] https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/1481 > [2] > https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/phodav/-/blob/2fe6090823b251c7accfd1f9706d2577e06fe189/spice/spice-webdavd.c#L636 > [3] > https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/commit/cce29579389e892eb263d8507a71b3b3ca7433bb > [4] https://www.spice-space.org/spice-user-manual.html Frediano _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel