A guest agent for Tart VMS is a lightweight background service that runs inside the virtual machine and enables enhanced communication between the host and guest and other useful features, such as automatic disk resizing.
Currently implemented features:
- Automatic disk resizing for macOS VMs with recovery partition removed (
--resize-disk
)- needs to be invoked as a launchd global daemon
- Clipboard sharing for macOS VMs using our in-house SPICE vdagent implementation (
--run-vdagent
)- needs to be invoked as a launchd global agent
tart exec
support (--run-rpc
)- it's recommended to invoke it as a launchd global agent because fewer privileges will be available to commands started via
tart exec
- however, you can also invoke it as a launchd global daemon if running commands started via
tart exec
asroot
is desired
- it's recommended to invoke it as a launchd global agent because fewer privileges will be available to commands started via
To run all features appropriate for a given context, use component groups:
--run-daemon
- implies
--resize-disk
- example usage:
tart-guest-daemon.plist
- implies
--run-agent
- implies
--run-vdagent --run-rpc
- example usage:
tart-guest-agent.plist
- implies