I refuse to let SPICE die
A developer has created a community-maintained fork of the SPICE Windows guest agent, which was previously abandoned by Red Hat. This project ensures continued support for Windows 11 virtual machines running on Linux hosts.
Why it matters
It maintains critical open-source infrastructure for virtualization, preventing software rot in enterprise and hobbyist environments.
Community-maintained Windows guest agent for SPICE . This repository is a public mirror of the abandoned freedesktop.org spice/win32/vd_agent project. Canonical downloads live on GitHub Releases .
Red Hat no longer maintains upstream SPICE. This fork keeps the Windows agent building and shipping for current guests, especially Windows 11 VMs on Linux.
The tree already includes the multi-GPU mouse fix from d7405ee ( vdagent/desktop_layout.cpp ): when a real GPU is passed through alongside the SPICE display device, the agent no longer loses mouse movement.
The agent is GPL-2.0-or-later . See COPYING and the copyright headers in each source file. Original copyright remains with Red Hat, Inc. and other upstream authors. This fork does not claim the Red Hat or SPICE trademarks.
Pinned build-time submodules (do not bump casually):
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