How to mount a shared folder between Linux KVM Host and Guests

Posted on Tue 21 June 2022 in linux • Tagged with qemu, kvm, linux

Sharing folder between KVM virtual machines and host, may be useful. Here is a way found in fedora forum.

Quickstart

Change vm to your vm hostname.

sudo mkdir -p /mnt/shared
sudo chmod -R a+rwX /mnt/shared
sudo semanage fcontext -a -t svirt_home_t "/mnt/shared(/.*)?"
sudo restorecon -R /mnt …

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