How To Install spice-vdagent on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-vdagent on CentOS 7.
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 7. 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 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install spice-vdagent using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install spice-vdagent
Install spice-vdagent on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install spice-vdagent using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install spice-vdagent
How To Uninstall spice-vdagent on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the spice-vdagent package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove spice-vdagent
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-vdagent on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
