Community-maintained Windows guest agent for SPICE. This repository is a public mirror of the abandoned freedesktop.org spice/win32/vd_agent project. Canonical downloads live on GitHub Releases.

The agent provides client mouse mode without grabbing the pointer, desktop resolution matching the client, clipboard sharing (text and images), and file transfer into the guest. A Windows service (spice-agent) starts vdagent.exe in each session. Red Hat no longer maintains upstream SPICE.

This fork keeps the Windows agent building and shipping for current guests, especially Windows 11 VMs on Linux. The tree already includes the multi-GPU mouse fix: when a real GPU is passed through alongside the SPICE display device, the agent no longer loses mouse movement. The agent is GPL-2.0-or-later.

Original copyright remains with Red Hat, Inc. and other upstream authors. This fork does not claim Red Hat or SPICE trademarks. Pinned build-time submodules include spice-protocol and spice-common.

The x64 installer ships vdagent.exe and vdservice.exe into C:\Program Files\SPICE agent\bin. Clone via git clone --recursive https://github.com/nefarius/vd_agent.git. Build requires MSYS2 UCRT64 shell.

GitHub Actions builds the x64 UCRT64 MSI on windows-2022. Release tags must look like v0.11.0 for Programs and Features display.