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PlexSheep ,
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Just in case you are on a desktop and using qemu for local virtualisation, I would recommend you use virt-manager.

Besides that, set up spice or vnc daemons in the guests, as others have said.

Just in case You’re virtualising Kali Linux, use their provided qemu image, you won’t have to worry about it. If you don’t know what Kali is, don’t use it.

stark OP ,

Thank you for the virt-manager recommendation. I’ll look into it.

I did build Kali from their ISO but I’ll give their provided image a try. I do know what Kali is and what it is used for. I’ll be using it for TryHackMe labs.

PlexSheep ,
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Okay, so my guess was right. Don’t bother setting things up manually, qemu and libvirt are hellishly complex. If you don’t need something super special, use virt-manager.

Just use the provided qemu image on the Kali site, import it, and you’re good to go. Don’t worry about the other stuff.

Depending in your screen you might have to set a custom screen resolution, but if you’re using something standard, xfce should automatically recognize everything.

A little tip: set up an ssh server on the VM and upload an ssh key, that way you can get a Kali she’ll quickly from the comfort of your hosts terminal.

stark OP ,

After some work, I got virt-manager up and running with kali. Copy and paste works! Thank you so much for your help!

PlexSheep ,
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Sure, happy hacking

Pantherina ,

Spice-vdagent on the VM client.

Cwilliams ,

I presume that only works if you use spice, tho

reddit_sux ,

askubuntu.com/questions/858649/…/858650#858650

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stark OP ,

I’ve tried this solution but could not get it to work. Do I need to install Spice on Arch? Do I have to run QEMU with certain parameters?

reddit_sux ,

wiki.archlinux.org/title/QEMU#SPICE

conorab , (edited )

Are you running QEMU directly, or through libvirt (GNOME Boxes, Virt Manager)?

EDIT: NVM I see you’ve answered that in another comment. I believe you can’t do this with QEMU directly. If you don’t need to be able to edit the VM config besides core count, disk size and RAM use GNOME Boxes. Otherwise use Virt Manager.

phanto ,

I know this isn’t a real answer, but it’s what I use as a stop gap measure… I basically have a text file called buffer, and ssh into the VM on a terminal on my host, and paste into the buffer file.

I know it’s lame, but for simple text and stuff, it works. For things like files and pics, I use a shared drive.

If someone has a better answer… Please let me know!

fluke ,
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Grug brained solution. It no fancy but work. Grug happy. Now have time to relax.

Kusimulkku ,

That’s such an incredibly janky solution holy shit lol

SPICE is the answer

phanto ,

The spice must flow…

I see that spice is a grayed-out option in Proxmox, is it relatively easy to get it going?

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