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diff --git a/docs/manual/SpiceUserManual-Guest.xml b/docs/manual/SpiceUserManual-Guest.xml new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6648f831 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/manual/SpiceUserManual-Guest.xml @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +<?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> |