plembo

You need spice-vdagent

Debian or Kali Linux installed to as KVM (libvirtd) guests do not automatically have qemu-guest-agent or spice-vdagent installed. This will prevent seamless movement of the mouse cursor between the guest and host desktop in Virtual Machine Manager (requiring the use of a Ctrl-Alt to release the cursor from the guest window).

To cure this, install both qemu-guest-agent and spice-vdagent on each guest and reboot (the guests).

$ sudo apt install qemu-guest-agent
$ sudo apt install spice-vdagent

quiver

Sometimes you want to retrieve EC2 insntances' region information.

You can query that information through instance metadata(169.254.169.254).

$ curl --silent http://169.254.169.254/latest/dynamic/instance-identity/document
{
  "privateIp" : "172.31.2.15",
  "instanceId" : "i-12341ee8",
  "billingProducts" : null,
 "instanceType" : "t2.small",