GitHub - nefarius/vd_agent: Windows SPICE guest agent. Community-maintained fork of the abandoned freedesktop.org vd_agent.

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This article describes a community-maintained GitHub fork of the Windows SPICE guest agent. The project keeps the agent building and shipping for current Windows guests, especially Windows 11 VMs running on Linux with SPICE. It details the agent’s core features, including mouse integration, clipboard sharing, file transfer, dynamic resolution, and multi-GPU support. It also outlines build, signing, packaging, and release instructions for producing and distributing the MSI installer through GitHub Actions.

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