Re: Shared folder and wireless printer for qemu/kvm

From	"Gary L. Roach" <garyroach719@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Shared folder and wireless printer for qemu/kvm
Date	2021-10-06 01:50 +0200
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On 10/5/21 4:25 PM, Gary L. Roach wrote:
>
> Hi again,
>
> I finally found a straight forward installation process for shared 
> folders. See:
>
> *https://nts.strzibny.name/how-to-set-up-shared-folders-in-virt-manager/*
>
> If you are using something like /home/gary/vmshare as a folder name 
> use that when in doubt.
>
> Gary R.
>
> On 10/4/21 3:38 PM, Gary L. Roach wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for the reply
>>
>> I am interested in printer only. As I stated in my email: The HP 
>> printer is wifi connected to my local network and is accessible by 
>> all of the computers on the network. *This includes the host system*. 
>> Right now the shared folder is probably more important because I can 
>> then switch systems and print a file from the host system.
>>
>> Gary R.
>>
>> On 10/4/21 3:08 PM, Charles Curley wrote:
>>> On Mon, 4 Oct 2021 14:10:21 -0700
>>> "Gary L. Roach"<garyroach719@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have my Debian 11 installation as host. I installed Debian 10 on
>>>> qemu/kvm to run a program that needs Qt4. I need to set up a shared
>>>> folder and connection to my wifi networked HP Officejet Pro 8600
>>>> printer.
>>> What do you need to connect to it for? Printing? Scanning? Both?
>>>
>>> The first thing I would do is make sure I can access the printer from
>>> the host OS. Then see if CUPS/SANE on the guest will find the printer by
>>> itself. If not, I'd copy the CUPS setup by copy and paste from the host
>>> to the guest. For SANE, I'd copy /etc/sane.d/dll.d/hplip over.
>>>
>>> The SANE driver will almost certainly be hpaio.
>>>
>>> Another possibility for the printer is to make the host instance
>>> sharable and use that share on the guest.
>>>

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Shared folder and wireless printer for qemu/kvm "Gary L. Roach" <garyroach719@gmail.com> - 2021-10-04 23:20 +0200
  Re: Shared folder and wireless printer for qemu/kvm Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2021-10-05 00:10 +0200
    Re: Shared folder and wireless printer for qemu/kvm "Gary L. Roach" <garyroach719@gmail.com> - 2021-10-05 00:40 +0200
      Re: Shared folder and wireless printer for qemu/kvm "Gary L. Roach" <garyroach719@gmail.com> - 2021-10-06 01:50 +0200

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