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It seems that gnome-boxes requires a package called 'SPICE guest tools' to be installed on a guest system, in order for USB devices to be redirected from the host to the guest. I am running Lubuntu 18.04 as a guest in a gnome box and I am confused as to where I can download this 'guest tools' package.

The gnome-boxes properties dialog window says it can be downloaded from http://www.spice-space.org/download.html ; however, I can only find Windows binaries for the guest tools but not for Linux.

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  • @guiverc I double-checked and I was mistaken - it's actually 18.04. I will edit my question. – Time4Tea Mar 17 '20 at 21:28
  • I have no experience with it sorry, but https://gitlab.com/libosinfo/libosinfo/issues/2 (jbicha) is possibly your answer – guiverc Mar 17 '20 at 21:34
  • Most likely, you don't need to do anything. `spice-vdagent` is a default package of Ubuntu flavors. – DK Bose Mar 18 '20 at 04:58

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By now you might have noticed Lubuntu’s screen resolution is small with extra black spaces on the left and right side, and folder sharing is not enabled too. This brings up the need to install guest tools on Lubuntu. ​

Launch terminal program from the guest session (not your host terminal program) and install the guest tools using the below command:

sudo apt install spice-vdagent spice-webdavd

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