Gnome-boxes (Win10) unable to share folder with Host F38

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Hello,
I fresh installed F38, and used gnome boxes to install win 10.
I followed the instruction to install spice-webdav, spice-guest-tools on VM.
F38 has spice-webdav installed. But I can’t get the share folder to work.
In F37 I has no problem though.
Google search showed someone might have asked the same question but the page couldn’t be loaded.
Please help!
Thanks,
Dima

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I use guest OS is Fedora, I hope you find it informative
XML file missing webdav.

virsh edit <guest win 10>

Note that this command not root, normal user.

insert before <channel type='spicevmc'>

<channel type='spiceport'>
      <source channel='org.spice-space.webdav.0'/>
      <target type='virtio' name='org.spice-space.webdav.0'/>
      <address type='virtio-serial' controller='0' bus='0' port='2'/>
    </channel>

save file.

Boot guest win10, open Files then others, wait a few minutes(10 min?), you can access share folder.

But this share folder is unstable. It happen often cannot open share folder.

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Thank you! It worked!
Indeed there wasn’t any webdav in XML file, odd.
I tried editing XML file through gnome-boxes, but the edits were not permanently saved.
Using command line as you suggested worked. Amazing!

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This issue exists also for F38 Silverblue users (using Flatpak version of Gnome Boxes)
I tried to use flatpak --command=virsh run org.gnome.Boxes bug it seems there is no <channel type='spicevmc'> … .weird

Apparently someone suggests to move from Flatpak to standard version of Gnome Boxes : Gnome-boxes (Win10) unable to share folder with Host F38 - #3 by fedora30kvm

I hope there will be a solution with Flatpak at a time.