Sign in
dnf kevin rpm spice-vdagent xml

Enable copy paste in libvirt guests, Install spice-vdagent using libvirt centos 8

This post is a part of “up and running with libvirt guests series” Tldr: see below instructions for centos 8 myLibvirtHost# virsh destroy myguest myLibvirtHost# virsh edit --domain myguest # ADD BELOW CODE SNIPPET…

This post is a part of “up and running with libvirt guests series”

Tldr: see below instructions for centos 8 

myLibvirtHost# virsh destroy myguest
myLibvirtHost# virsh edit --domain myguest

# ADD BELOW CODE SNIPPET ANYWHERE IN THE DEVICE SECTION
<devices>
    <controller type='virtio-serial' index='0'/>
    <channel type='spicevmc'>
        <target type='virtio' name='com.redhat.spice.0'/>
    </channel>

<graphics type='spice' autoport='yes'>
  <listen type='address'/>
</graphics>

</devices>
:wq # save the configuration using vim shortcuts

myLibvirtHost# virsh start --domain myguest
ssh user@myguest 
myguest# sudo dnf install spice-vdagent
myguest# sudo systemctl start spice-vdagentd
myguest# reboot

When your libvirt guest boots up again, try connecting over vnc and copy between your computers.

sources: