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This manual documents how to enable/use various SPICE features when creating a VM by running QEMU directly, or when using libvirt, or when using virt-manager. This is based on work by Lubos Kocman
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<?oxygen RNGSchema="http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/5.0/rng/docbookxi.rng" type="xml"?>
+
+<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+ xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+ xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0">
+ <title>Spice Guest Additions</title>
+
+ <section xml:id="generic-guest">
+ <title>Introduction</title>
+ <para>
+ While you will be able to remotely access your virtual machine
+ through Spice without making any change to the virtual machine
+ configuration, you can get better integration if you tweak it
+ specially for Spice.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If your virtual machine has a QXL video device and you install
+ the corrresponding guest driver, your guest will support higher
+ resolutions, multiple monitors, resizing to arbitrary resolutions,
+ ...
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Installing the Spice vdagent in your guest will let you copy and
+ paste between your guest and client OSes, to drag and drop files
+ between the 2 OSes, ... In order for the agent to work, your
+ virtual machine must have a virtio serial device (and the
+ corresponding guest drivers) as well as a Spice spicevmc channel.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section xml:id="windows-guest">
+ <title>Windows Guest</title>
+ <para>
+ The recommended way of getting all the needed drivers installed is
+ to use the all-in-one Spice guest tools installer which can be
+ found <link xlink:href="http://spice-space.org/download/windows/spice-guest-tools/">
+ on spice-space.org</link>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ To get USB redirection working on Windows, you need to ...
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If you want to manually install them, the QXL driver can be downloaded from
+ <link xlink:href="http://spice-space.org/download/windows/qxl/">this location
+ </link>, agent builds can be found
+ <link xlink:href="http://spice-space.org/download/windows/vdagent/">here
+ </link>. You also need the vioserial driver which is distributed with the
+ other <link xlink:href="https://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/bin/">
+ virtio-win drivers</link>.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+</chapter>