nefarius/vd_agent
Windows SPICE guest agent. Community-maintained fork of the abandoned freedesktop.org vd_agent.
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
README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.
Why it’s trending
- The repository is 2 days old and already has 19 stars.
- Hacker News: “I refuse to let SPICE die” — 86 points, 1 day ago.
Stars per day
Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 19
- Stars in a day
- 0
- Forks
- 1
- Issues and pull requests
- 8
- Watchers
- 0
- Language
- C++
- License
- GPL-2.0
- Latest release
- v0.13.0 · September 12, 2026
- Created
- September 11, 2026
- Last push
- September 13, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
Hacker News discussions
- I refuse to let SPICE die86 points, September 12, 2026
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- September 13, 2026Spotted on Hacker News
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