How To Install spice-vdagent on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-vdagent on CentOS 8.
What is spice-vdagent
Spice agent for Linux guests offering the following features Features * Client mouse mode (no need to grab mouse by client, no mouse lag) this is handled by the daemon by feeding mouse events into the kernel via uinput. This will only work if the active X-session is running a spice-vdagent process so that its resolution can be determined. * Automatic adjustment of the X-session resolution to the client resolution * Support of copy and paste (text and images) between the active X-session and the client
We can use yum or dnf to install spice-vdagent on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install spice-vdagent.
Install spice-vdagent 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 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install spice-vdagent
Install spice-vdagent 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 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install spice-vdagent
How To Uninstall spice-vdagent on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the spice-vdagent package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove spice-vdagent
spice-vdagent Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/xdg/autostart/spice-vdagent.desktop
/usr/bin/spice-vdagent
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/bf
/usr/lib/.build-id/bf/9055077fa8a69c48fb08a3d009ff3d208cadc5
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe/44787077c3993ff2036d64196b34b123fdfd9c
/usr/lib/systemd/system/spice-vdagentd.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/spice-vdagentd.socket
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/spice-vdagentd.conf
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/70-spice-vdagentd.rules
/usr/sbin/spice-vdagentd
/usr/share/doc/spice-vdagent
/usr/share/doc/spice-vdagent/CHANGELOG.md
/usr/share/doc/spice-vdagent/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/spice-vdagent/README.md
/usr/share/gdm
/usr/share/gdm/autostart
/usr/share/gdm/autostart/LoginWindow
/usr/share/gdm/autostart/LoginWindow/spice-vdagent.desktop
/usr/share/gdm/greeter
/usr/share/gdm/greeter/autostart
/usr/share/gdm/greeter/autostart/spice-vdagent.desktop
/usr/share/man/man1/spice-vdagent.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/spice-vdagentd.1.gz
/var/run/spice-vdagentd
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-vdagent on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
