wiki/docs/Miscellaneous/spice-guest-tools.md
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Spice Guest Tools

These are the software packages for the guest OS that provide stuff like copy-paste, shared folders, graphics drivers, etc. They're not required, but are quite useful (and tiny!)

Windows

The download is here, it's easy. Just install it and restart.

Linux

Linux guests use the packages spice-vdagent (for copy-paste, shared folders, etc.) and xf86-video-qxl (for graphics drivers) (or xf86-video-qxl-devel if you're building from source, according to GitHub copilot, IDK). The spice-vdagent package is available in most distributions' repositories, but the xf86-video-qxl package is not. You can build it from source (download here).

macOS

No. Maybe the Linux ones would work, IDK. I don't feel like testing it. Check out this and this.