[gnome-boxes/add-docs-for-guest-agent-installation] help, docs: Add page describing how to install guest tools
- From: Felipe Borges <felipeborges src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [gnome-boxes/add-docs-for-guest-agent-installation] help, docs: Add page describing how to install guest tools
- Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2022 15:27:53 +0000 (UTC)
commit bac20f95fdf3965853ec34b237a825e5c41c6a04
Author: Felipe Borges <felipeborges gnome org>
Date: Tue Mar 29 17:22:45 2022 +0200
help, docs: Add page describing how to install guest tools
The spice-guest-tools/agent provide better performance and additional
integration features between host-guest.
While some distributions include spice-vdagent by default, some don't,
neither does Windows.
help/C/install-guest-agent.page | 63 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
help/meson.build | 1 +
2 files changed, 64 insertions(+)
---
diff --git a/help/C/install-guest-agent.page b/help/C/install-guest-agent.page
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1698fcde
--- /dev/null
+++ b/help/C/install-guest-agent.page
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
+ type="topic" style="task"
+ id="install-guest-tools">
+ <info>
+ <revision version="0.1" date="2022-03-29" status="candidate"/>
+ <link type="guide" xref="index#use"/>
+
+ <credit type="author copyright">
+ <name>Felipe Borges</name>
+ <email>felipeborges gnome org</email>
+ <years>2022</years>
+ </credit>
+
+ <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
+
+ <desc>Enable additional integrations with your box.</desc>
+ </info>
+
+ <title>Install guest tools</title>
+
+ <comment>
+ <cite date="2022-03-29" href="mailto:felipeborges gnome org">Felipe Borges</cite>
+ <p>This assumes the reader has succesfully installed a virtual machine.
+ By the end of this article the reader will be able to install the guest tools
+ for an improved experience while using Boxes.</p>
+ </comment>
+
+ <p>Guest tools are a collection of drivers and utilities that improve the usability of your virtual
machine. It provides improved input performance, automatic screen resolution adjustment, shared clipboard,
and file transfer.</p>
+
+ <section id="installing-on-windows">
+ <title>Installing on Windows virtual machines</title>
+
+ <p>Visit <link href="https://win.gnomeboxes.org">win.gnomeboxes.org</link> in your Windows virtual
machine to download and install the <app>spice-guest-tools</app> application, which provides the guest
integration for GNOME Boxes.</p>
+ </section>
+
+ <section id="installing-on-linux">
+ <title>Installing on Linux virtual machines</title>
+
+ <p>Most popular Linux distributions package the guest tools as <app>spice-vdagent</app>.</p>
+
+ <p>The spice agent for Linux consists of 2 parts, a daemon <app>spice-vdagentd</app> and
+ a per X-session process <app>spice-vdagent</app>. The daemon gets started in Spice guests
+ through a Sys-V initscript or a systemd unit. The per X-session gets
+ automatically started in desktop environments which honor <file>/etc/xdg/autostart</file>,
+ and under <app>gdm</app>.</p>
+
+ <section id="installing-on-rpm">
+ <title>Installing on RPM based distributions</title>
+
+ <p>Distributions such as Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS Stream, OpenSUSE, are known to
provide <app>spice-vdagent</app> in their repositories.</p>
+
+ <screen>sudo dnf install spice-vdagent</screen>
+ </section>
+
+ <section id="installing-on-deb">
+ <title>Installing on Deb based distributions</title>
+
+ <p>Distributions such as Ubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint are known to provide <app>spice-vdagent</app> in
their repositories.</p>
+
+ <screen>sudo apt install spice-vdagent</screen>
+ </section>
+ </section>
+</page>
diff --git a/help/meson.build b/help/meson.build
index 3ae7b65c..181f87c1 100644
--- a/help/meson.build
+++ b/help/meson.build
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ help_files = [
'disk-images.page',
'edit-domain.page',
'index.page',
+ 'install-guest-agent.page',
'interface.page',
'keystrokes.page',
'legal.xml',
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