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virt-manager

Virtual Machine Manager is a desktop user interface for managing virtual machines through libvirt. It primarily targets KVM VMs, but also manages Xen and LXC (linux containers).

Guest additions⚑

To enable features such as shared clipboard, drag and drop, etc. between the host and the guest using [[virt-manager]] you need to:

  1. Install spice-guest-tools in the [[Windows]] guest or spice-vdagent for a [[GNU/Linux]] one.
  2. In virt-manager: Add Hardware -> Channel, set name to "com.redhat.spice.0" (or similar), set device type as "Spice agent (spicevmc)".

Reference: vnc - virt-manager copy paste functionality to the vm - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange.