How to share folder with Windows 10 guest using virt-manager (KVM)?

These instructions for sharing host files with a guest are not working because there is no /usr/bin/qemu-kvm.

Solution 1:

You can not add a shared folder in virt-manager like it is described in your article because the filesystem passthrough doesn't work well with a windows guest.

To solve your problem you have several options:

1. You can share a folder in the local network at your linux host system via SAMBA and access it over the windows filesystem directly.
2. You can use spice-webdav to share a folder like it is described in this article from Guy Rutenberg. This is not recommend for transferring large files.
3. If you only want to transfer data one or two times instead of having a permanent shared folder you can pack the data in your host system into a .iso file and add it in virt-manager as a disc to access it in the windows guest system.