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Todd And Margo Chester <[log in to unmask]>
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Todd And Margo Chester <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 23 Sep 2011 18:46:25 -0700
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On 09/23/2011 01:41 AM, Stephan Wiesand wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sep 23, 2011, at 00:30 , Todd And Margo Chester wrote:
>
>> I am migrating from Virtual Box on my old server (CentOS 5.6 x32) to KVM on
>> my new server (SL6.1 x64).
>>
>> Virtual box has a collection of drivers to assist the guest called
>> "Guest Additions".  These drives give you shared clipboard
>> and shared mouse, among other things.
>>
>> Question: does KVM have a similar package of guest drivers?
>> I am specifically looking for mouse sharing and shared clipboard.
>> I am not sure if I need a special video driver as well.
> eventually, SPICE will be what you're looking for. See http://www.spice-space.org/features.html .
>
> Some of the components come with SL, some can be downloaded elsewhere. But right now, it's probably not quite finished and hard to get going.
>

Hi Stephan,

Is this the spice you are referring to?

http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/16005959/dir/scientific_linux_6/com/spice-xpi-2.4-4.el6.x86_64.rpm.html

-T

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