{"slug": "you-need-spice-vdagent", "title": "You need spice-vdagent", "summary": "Debian and Kali Linux virtual machines running under KVM/libvirtd lack pre-installed agents like qemu-guest-agent and spice-vdagent, which prevents smooth mouse cursor movement between the guest and host. To resolve this, users must manually install both packages on each guest and reboot the virtual machine.", "body_md": "# You need spice-vdagent\nDebian or Kali Linux installed to as KVM (libvirtd) guests do not automatically have qemu-guest-agent or spice-vdagent installed. This will prevent seamless movement of the mouse cursor between the guest and host desktop in Virtual Machine Manager (requiring the use of a Ctrl-Alt to release the cursor from the guest window).\n\nTo cure this, install both qemu-guest-agent and spice-vdagent on each guest and reboot (the guests). \n\n```\n$ sudo apt install qemu-guest-agent\n$ sudo apt install spice-vdagent\n```\n", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/you-need-spice-vdagent", "canonical_source": "https://gist.github.com/plembo/21d4a1579850f7fe84301a90f4fcdf9a", "published_at": "2019-06-09 22:24:06+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-22 19:06:01.087455+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["open-source", "cloud-computing", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Debian", "Kali Linux", "KVM", "libvirtd", "qemu-guest-agent", "spice-vdagent", "Virtual Machine Manager"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/you-need-spice-vdagent", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/you-need-spice-vdagent.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/you-need-spice-vdagent.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/you-need-spice-vdagent.jsonld"}}