nefarius/vd_agent
- Total stars
- 21
- Today
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Windows SPICE guest agent. Community-maintained fork of the abandoned freedesktop.org vd_agent.
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About the project
Windows SPICE guest agent: clipboard sharing, file transfer, desktop resolution matching and pointer-free mouse mode. Community-maintained fork of the abandoned freedesktop.org vd_agent.
Useful for
- Set up clipboard and file sharing between a Linux host and Windows 11 in QEMU/KVM
- Install the agent MSI into a VM with a passed-through GPU
- Build a signed agent MSI from source in MSYS2 UCRT64
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Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 29, 2026, 14:30 UTC.
The star-growth assessment does not verify whether the project is safe to run.
Stars per day
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Why it’s trending
- The repository is 18 days old and already has 21 stars.
- Hacker News: “I refuse to let SPICE die” — 88 points, 17 days ago.
Measured growth: the last 7 completed days
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Numbers
- Total stars
- 21
- Today
- +0 stars on 2026-09-29 (UTC), ≈ 0 by evening
- Forks
- 1
- Issues and pull requests
- 8
- Watchers
- 1
- Language
- C++
- License
- GPL-2.0
- Latest release
- v0.13.0 · September 12, 2026
- Created
- September 11, 2026
- Last push
- September 18, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
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Hacker News discussions
- I refuse to let SPICE die88 points, September 12, 2026
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- September 19, 2026Spotted on Hacker News
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