# nefarius/vd_agent

> 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.

- Magnitude: 0.1 out of 10 — Quiet
- Stars: 21 total · +0 stars on 2026-09-29 (UTC), ≈ 0 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: DevOps & infrastructure · Language: C++ · License: GPL-2.0 · Created: 2026-09-11 · Last push: 2026-09-18
- GitHub: https://github.com/nefarius/vd_agent · Homepage: https://discord.nefarius.at · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/nefarius/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

## Why it’s here

- The repository is 18 days old and already has 21 stars.
- Hacker News: “I refuse to let SPICE die” — 88 points, 17 days ago.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 1
- Issues and pull requests: 8
- Watchers: 1
- Average over the last week: 0 per day
- Usual pace: 1 per day
- Latest release: v0.13.0 (2026-09-12)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-30 … 2026-10-29: None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None

## Magnitude by day, last 14 days

09-16 0.8, 09-17 0.9, 09-18 0.6, 09-19 0.7, 09-20 0.8, 09-21 0.3, 09-22 0.3, 09-23 0.2, 09-24 0.2, 09-25 0.2, 09-26 0.1, 09-27 0.1, 09-28 0.1, 09-29 0.1

## Hacker News

- I refuse to let SPICE die — 88 points, 72 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49672641

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-09-29 14:30 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.