Hi, On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 01:38:54PM -0400, Koopa Koopa wrote: > On 7/30/20, Frediano Ziglio <fziglio@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> 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? > > Yep, that port is in the listening state. > > > Is the Windows XP service running? > > Yes, it is, and I have tried restarting it. > > In further testing, the share works perfectly fine with the free > BitKinex client, but I still can't get it to work again as a mapped > drive in Windows at all. Since it continues to work without any issues > in the 3rd party programs I have tried, I'm inclined to believe that > the issue is not at all with spice-webdavd. It seems like either an XP > bug or misconfiguration of my (clean) installation. In any case, I'm > exploring other options for host/guest file sharing, as I can't seem > to resolve this. Sorry if I missed in case you have done it before, but I think you have to run the map-drive.bat script https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/phodav/-/blob/master/bin/map-drive.bat > >> 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. > > Yeah, I have a Windows 10 VM that I use for most things, it's just > that I have a program which requires Windows XP in order to function. :)
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