From 7095563153af0e3481605eb5979ca8e6982d95cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christophe Fergeau Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 20:01:42 +0100 Subject: Add reference manual 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 --- docs/manual/SpiceUserManual-Guest.xml | 54 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 54 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/manual/SpiceUserManual-Guest.xml (limited to 'docs/manual/SpiceUserManual-Guest.xml') 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 @@ + + + + + Spice Guest Additions + +
+ Introduction + + 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. + + + 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, + ... + + + 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. + +
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+ Windows Guest + + 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 + on spice-space.org. + + + To get USB redirection working on Windows, you need to ... + + + If you want to manually install them, the QXL driver can be downloaded from + this location + , agent builds can be found + here + . You also need the vioserial driver which is distributed with the + other + virtio-win drivers. + +
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