> On 7/31/20, Victor Toso <victortoso@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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 > > Ah, yeah, I forgot to mention that script. For the short period of > time in which the share was working, I had gotten it to work by > manually adding it to File Explorer. That is, I tried running the > script, got error 67, and then successfully added the share from the > File Explorer GUI right after. The script - or, rather, the command > "net use * http://localhost:9843";, seems to always give: > > System error 67 occurred. > > The network name cannot be found. > > When setting up spice-webdavd with Windows 10, I've had this error > occur in cases when the service is not running. In this case, though, > the service definitely is running, and SPICE is responding to > http://localhost:9843 in browsers in the guest. > > > > >> >> 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. > > > > :) > > > > Being abandonware is difficult to find old updates and fixes. You can try https://download.cnet.com/Software-Update-for-Web-Folders-KB907306/3000-2064_4-10753425.html ? Frediano _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel