<div><br></div>not sure how many people have actually tried this....but I ran a little test the other day.<div><br></div><div>Laptop (fedora 18) </div><div>Server (fedora 18) ...running a windows7 guest.</div><div><br></div>
<div>*All qemu, libvirt and spice packages were Fedora defaults....as in what you find in the standard repo.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I took my laptop to my brothers house (5 miles away) and used "spicec" to connect to my windows7 guest...."shift+F11" to full screen and launched a 720p HD movie via VLC (running in the windows guest)...... if you've not seen it before it'll take your breath away :))))) ....it's not 100% perfect....but it's at least 98% perfect.</div>
<div><br></div><div>...yes we both have virgin media broadband (UK) .... BUT ping response times are in the 20ms </div><div><br></div><div>After that test, I've been working day and night designing a spice thin client (hardware) because it's obvious that the way the "majority" of people use a PC's is about to change.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Bruce</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Marian Krcmarik <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mkrcmari@redhat.com" target="_blank">mkrcmari@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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> From: "John A. Sullivan III" <<a href="mailto:jsullivan@opensourcedevel.com">jsullivan@opensourcedevel.com</a>><br>
> To: <a href="mailto:spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org">spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org</a><br>
> Sent: Thursday, March 7, 2013 2:35:10 PM<br>
> Subject: Re: [Spice-devel] Spice for commercial use<br>
><br>
> On Thu, 2013-03-07 at 01:10 -0800,<br>
> <a href="mailto:spice-devel-request@lists.freedesktop.org">spice-devel-request@lists.freedesktop.org</a> wrote:<br>
> > Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 06:24:34 -0800<br>
> > From: Tom Holmes <<a href="mailto:tomholmes@live.com">tomholmes@live.com</a>><br>
> > To: <<a href="mailto:spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org">spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org</a>><br>
> > Subject: [Spice-devel] Spice for commercial use<br>
> > Message-ID: <BLU170-W120A85A49F95B3126C2236EC5E40@phx.gbl><br>
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> ><br>
> > Hello!<br>
> > Can Spice be used for commercial use, if so are there licensing<br>
> > fees<br>
> > that are applied? Would you say Spice is comparable to RDP, ICA<br>
> > and<br>
> > PCOIP? Can Spice be used to access a Windows Desktop?<br>
> > Thank you so much!Tom<br>
> ><br>
> I have not used PCoIP but, from what I understand, SPICE would be<br>
> most<br>
> similar to that. Fundamentally, all four are providing the same<br>
> primary<br>
> functionality - remote desktops. In my experience, RDP and ICA are a<br>
</div></div>The goal is the same but concept how to achieve it is (afaik) completely different. PCoIP is a UDP stream of rendered pixels on host (with some support to offload image encoding to special hardware cards) while Spice is a TCP stream of graphics commands to be rendered on the client.<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">> little more responsive over a WAN/Internet connection right now but<br>
> do<br>
> not handle multimedia as well as SPICE. I mean RDP6 and above - RDP5<br>
> was terrible over a WAN. I believe, as video becomes more important<br>
> and<br>
> as SPICE improves its video capability, perhaps with an inter-frame<br>
> compression algorithm instead of MJPEG, it will become our remote<br>
> desktop protocol of choice :) - John<br>
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