Whonix 18 - Wayland based - KVM - Clipboard Sharing - Broken

Patrick · September 28, 2025, 11:25am

For users:

related user documentation:
KVM, Clipboard Sharing

For developers:

spice-vdagent feature request from 2022:

Victor Toso @victortoso 2 weeks ago Owner

If patches are sent, I’ll be happy to review.

Alternatively, the following might solve it:

Virtual Machine Manager feature request:

github.com/virt-manager/virt-manager

[Feature request] Add support for `dbus` display

opened 07:38AM - 03 Jun 25 UTC

thelicato

I'd like to propose the addition of support for QEMU's D-BUS display backend in …`virt-manager`. ## Background QEMU has a [D-BUS display backend](https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/interop/dbus-display.html) that allows client applications to interact with the VM display through a D-BUS interface. This enables new workflows where external applications (such as custom display clients or compositors) can render the VM’s output without relying on traditional display backends like *SDL*, *GTK*, or *VNC*. ## Motivation Supporting the D-BUS display backend in `virt-manager` would: - Allow users to run headless VMs with dynamic display control. - Improve flexibility and modularity of VM display rendering in advanced setups. ## Proposed Behaviour Currently, `virt-manager` does not expose or recognize the D-BUS display backend, preventing users from using this display type without falling back to manual XML editing or command-line tools. Therefore it would be nice to: - Allow users to select `dbus` as a display option from the `virt-manager` UI. - Expose necessary configuration fields (e.g. the object path name) for finer control.