spice-vdagentd(1) General Commands Manual spice-vdagentd(1)
NAME
spice-vdagentd - Spice guest agent daemon
SYNOPSIS
spice-vdagent [OPTIONS]
DESCRIPTION
The spice guest agent for Linux consists of 2 parts, a system wide dae-
mon spice-vdagentd and a X11 session agent spice-vdagent of which there
is one per X11 session.
spice-vdagentd gets started through a Sys-V initscript or a systemd
unit.
FEATURES
The spice guest agent adds the following features to spice Linux guests:
Client mouse mode (no need to grab mouse by client, no mouse lag)
Automatic adjustment of the X11 session's number of virtual monitors,
and their resolution, to the number of client windows and their resolu-
tion
Support of copy and paste (text and images) between the active X11 ses-
sion and the client, this supports both the primary selection and the
clipboard
Support for transferring files from the client to the agent
OPTIONS
-h Print a short description of all command line options
-d Log debug messages (use twice for extra info)
-f Treat uinput device as fake; no ioctls. This is useful in combi-
nation with Xspice.
-o The daemon will exit after processing a single session.
-s port
Set virtio serial port (default: /dev/virtio-ports/com.red-
hat.spice.0)
-u device
Set uinput device (default: /dev/uinput)
-x Don't daemonize
-X Disable session info usage, spice-vdagentd needs to know which
spice-vdagent is in the currently active X11 session. spice-vda-
gentd uses console kit or systemd-logind (compile time option)
for this; The -X option disables this, if no session info is
available only one spice-vdagent is allowed
FILES
The Sys-V initscript or systemd unit parses the following files:
/etc/default/spice-vdagentd
Default cmdline options can be passed to spice-vdagentd by set-
ting them in the SPICE_VDAGENTD_EXTRA_ARGS variable in this file
SEE ALSO
spice-vdagent(1)
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2010-2013 Red Hat, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or
later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
spice-vdagent 0.22.1 April 2013 spice-vdagentd(1)
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