Hi,

On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 01:31:00PM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 1:09 PM, Victor Toso <li...@victortoso.com> wrote:
> > * spice-vdagent makes some interactions with the guest possible;
> >   clipboard exchange between client <-> guest is possible thanks to this
> >   daemon; copying files over drag-and-drop as well; and a few other
> >   features
>
> Does it make performance any better?

Hard to say. At some point when the agent was necessary for changing the
resolution, I would yes - but nowadays the kernel/video drivers handle
that directly if I'm not mistaken.

The agent is mostly necessary to enable some nice interaction between
client and guest.

>
> > * qemu-guest-agent: we don't use it at all
>
> Oh? I saw it listed at
> https://gitlab.com/libosinfo/osinfo-db/blob/master/data/install-script/fedoraproject.org/fedora-kickstart-desktop.xml.in#L156
>
> Jeremy

Boxes uses it, we might even ship that [0] on our spice-guest-tools (for
windows) but spice itself does not use it AFAIC

[0] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93022

  toso

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