Information about the package, spice-vdagent, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The spice-vdagent package is designed for, Agent for Spice guests.
Package Name:
spice-vdagent
Summary:
Agent for Spice guests
Description:
Spice agent for Linux guests offering the following features: Features: * Client mouse mode (no need to grab mouse by client, no mouse lag) this is handled by the daemon by feeding mouse events into the kernel via uinput. This will only work if the active X-session is running a spice-vdagent process so that its resolution can be determined. * Automatic adjustment of the X-session resolution to the client resolution * Support of copy and paste (text and images) between the active X-session and the client
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.14.0
Release:
13.el6
Size:
66 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv3+
Control the spice-vdagent package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install spice-vdagent
This command will install spice-vdagent on the server.
yum remove spice-vdagent
This command will un-install spice-vdagent on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove spice-vdagent, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove spice-vdagent
This command will un-install spice-vdagent on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove spice-vdagent when using the -y flag.
yum update spice-vdagent
This command will update spice-vdagent to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove spice-vdagent, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update spice-vdagent
This command will update spice-vdagent to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove spice-vdagent when using the -y flag.
yum info spice-vdagent
This command will show you core information about the spice-vdagent package.
yum deplist spice-vdagent
This command will show you the dependencies for spice-vdagent. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update spice-vdagent
This command will check if there is an update waiting on spice-vdagent. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.