Hi, On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 12:48:51PM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > I added spice-vdagent to Ubuntu GNOME 16.10's default install so that > it will work better in the GNOME Boxes app. Great to hear. > > Should qemu-guest-agent and spice-webdavd be installed by default too? > > I'm thinking about mentioning these packages to other Ubuntu flavors > in case they want to add them to the default install. > > Could you give a brief explanation of what each of the 3 packages do > and what the benefits are of them being installed? * 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 * spice-webdavd makes share-folder possible, and that's it. * qemu-guest-agent: we don't use it at all > > Do these agents have any downsides when installed outside of a spice > VM? None that I'm aware of. toso > > Thanks, > Jeremy Bicha > _______________________________________________ > Spice-devel mailing list > Spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel
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