How To Install spice-vdagent-win-x64 on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-vdagent-win-x64 on CentOS 8.
What is spice-vdagent-win-x64
Spice agent MSI installers for Windows guests (64 bit)
We can use yum or dnf to install spice-vdagent-win-x64 on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install spice-vdagent-win-x64.
Install spice-vdagent-win-x64 on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install spice-vdagent-win-x64 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install spice-vdagent-win-x64
Install spice-vdagent-win-x64 on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install spice-vdagent-win-x64 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install spice-vdagent-win-x64
How To Uninstall spice-vdagent-win-x64 on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the spice-vdagent-win-x64 package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove spice-vdagent-win-x64
spice-vdagent-win-x64 Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/spice/spice-vdagent-x64-0.10.0-5.msi
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-vdagent-win-x64 on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.