Felipe Borges
felipeborges@gnome.org 2022
Enable additional integrations with your box.
Jaume Jorba
jaume.jorba@gmail.com 2020
Miquel-Àngel Burgos i Fradeja
miquel.angel.burgos@gmail.com 2020
Jordi Mas i Hernàndez
jmas@softcatala.org 2022

# Install guest tools

Guest tools are a collection of drivers and utilities that improve the usability of your virtual machine. It provides improved input performance, automatic screen resolution adjustment, shared clipboard, and file transfer.

# Installing on Windows virtual machines

Visit win.gnomeboxes.org in your Windows virtual machine to download and install the spice-guest-tools application, which provides the guest integration for GNOME Boxes.

# Installing on Linux virtual machines

Most popular Linux distributions package the guest tools as spice-vdagent.

The spice agent for Linux consists of 2 parts, a daemon spice-vdagentd and a per X-session process spice-vdagent. The daemon gets started in Spice guests through a Sys-V initscript or a systemd unit. The per X-session gets automatically started in desktop environments which honor /etc/xdg/autostart, and under gdm.

## Installing on RPM based distributions

Distributions such as Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS Stream, OpenSUSE, are known to provide spice-vdagent in their repositories.

    sudo dnf install spice-vdagent

## Installing on Deb based distributions

Distributions such as Ubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint are known to provide spice-vdagent in their repositories.

    sudo apt install spice-vdagent