
Installing the Agent
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From release 0.4 Cuckoo adopts a custom agent that runs inside the
Guest and that handles the communication and the exchange of data with
the Host. This agent is designed to be cross-platform, therefore you
should be able to use it on Windows as well as on Linux and OS X. In
order to make Cuckoo work properly, you'll have to install and start
this agent.

It's very simple.

In the *agent/* directory you will find and *agent.py* file, just copy
it to the Guest operating system (in whatever way you want, perhaps a
temporary shared folder or by downloading it from a Host webserver)
and run it. This will launch the XMLRPC server which will be listening
for connections.

On Windows simply launching the script will also spawn a Python
window, if you want to hide it you can rename the file from *agent.py*
to **agent.pyw** which will prevent the window from spawning.

If you want the script to be launched at Windows' boot, just place the
file in the *Startup* folder.
