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For People In A Hurry: How To Set up Shared Folder in QEMU Virt-Manager
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This is a guide to quickly set up a shared folder between Ubuntu Virtual Machine and Ubuntu Host Machine.

Instructions 📘

  1. Set Enable shared memory to true for the instance. See screenshot below:
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  1. Add New Virtual Hardware. See screenshot below:
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  1. Install the following dependencies in Virtual Machine:
sudo apt update -y && sudo apt install -y spice-vdagent qemu-guest-agent

Add the following line to the end of etc/fstab:

sudo nano /etc/fstab
shared_folder /mnt/host virtiofs defaults,nofail 0 0

Verify ✔️

Run the command below and you should see no errors:

sudo mount -a
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