Package: hw-detect
Severity: normal
User: de...@kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali
Dear Maintainer,
hw-detect already installs the package qemu-guest-agent when kvm/qemu
virtualization is detect, in 'hw-detect.finish-install.d/08hw-detect':
kvm|qemu)
apt-install --with-recommends qemu-guest-agent || true
I'd find it welcome if in such case it would also install spice-vdagent.
As far as I know, installing spice-vdagent in the qemu guest is the only
way to share the clipboard between the host and the guest. I think that
clipboard sharing is a useful feature.
To go a bit more into details, clipboard sharing requires two things to
work.
1) Host-side: Enable spice while running the VM with qemu. It means that
the qemu command-line must have the following arguments:
-spice port=3001,disable-ticketing \
-device virtio-serial \
-chardev spicevmc,id=vdagent,debug=0,name=vdagent \
-device virtserialport,chardev=vdagent,name=com.redhat.spice.0 \
2) Guest-side: The package spice-vdagent must be installed.
For more details, refer to:
<https://www.spice-space.org/spice-user-manual.html>
The package spice-vdagent Depends on the Xorg stack, among other things:
$ apt show spice-vdagent | grep Depends
Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~)
Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.22), libc6 (>= 2.14),
libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.9.14), libdrm2 (>= 2.4.3),
libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.50), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.22),
libpciaccess0, libsystemd0, libx11-6, libxinerama1,
libxrandr2 (>= 2:1.2.99.2)
So maybe it would be acceptable to install it with something like:
if detect_desktop; then
apt-install --with-recommends spice-vdagent || true
fi
What do you think?
Regards,
Arnaud
