SPICE is a suite of tools for interfacing with desktop-oriented Virtual Machines. I’ve been using it for a couple of years, on Fedora and CentOS systems, mostly for Windows VMs that I required for work.
Until recently, it was fairly complicated to get SPICE to work on Debian-based systems, but I’ve just installed and got it working on Mint. Thankfully, nowadays you don’t need to recompile anything. All the patches and support are included by default, and you need to install these packages:
# apt-get update # apt-get install virt-manager libvirt-daemon python-spice-client-gtk qemu-kvm-spice virt-viewer spice-vdagent qemu-utils gir1.2-spice-client-gtk-3.0 gir1.2-spice-client-gtk-2.0 gir1.2-spice-client-glib-2.0
After this, I just created a new VM with virt-manager and it had SPICE enabled by default.
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