[Spice-devel] SPICE questions

[Dor Laor]

On 03/07/2010 11:16 PM, Stefan Zintgraf wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i have two questions regarding SPICE.
>
> a) 32-bit support
> I want to run a Windows guest on a 32-Bit Ubuntu system (version 9.10). The client shall also run on the same (32-Bit) machine. According the FAQ (and my experience...) i cannot build the server (libspice) on 32-Bit Ubuntu.
> As a result, i was also not aware to build a spiced qemu on that machine.
> Question: which components are required and how can i build them to run everything on a single 32-Bit Ubuntu system (Windows guest, spice server, spiced QEMU and spice client, ...)?

I guess it was only tested on 64 bit host, other than that, it's mainly 
trying and potentially fixing any issue that might come.

>
> b) Desktop Virtualization, SPICE without server (QEMU integrated client)
> This question is somehow related to my first question.
> I want to run a Windows guest together with a client on the same (32-Bit) Ubuntu (9.10) system. For such purpose it would be a performance benefit, if the QXL commands would be directly handled by QEMU without translating them into SPICE commands and translating/tranferring them via SPICE server to the SPICE client. Is it possible (or are there plans) to integrate the SPICE client without extra translation of the QXL commands into QEMU?

Adding qxl to qemu upstream is the first step, Gerd is working to adjust 
the current code to upstream qemu. Once this is over, having 
SDL/VNC/spice client in qemu are all required, it's a matter of 
time/priority.

>
> Much thanks for any answer
>
> Stefan
>
>
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