[Spice-devel] Request For Comments: proposals for standarizing VDI protocols in IETF

[Alon Levy]

On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 12:32:45PM +0200, Alon Levy wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 05:40:40PM +0800, liang.liang12 at zte.com.cn wrote:
> > Dear all,
> > 
> > As you know VDI is believed to be one of most promising technologies in 
> > cloud-computing ages, different companies or communities have different 
> > VDI protocol definitions, such as SPICE, RDP and ICA. Some are open, while 
> > some are proprietary protocols. Considering large deployment in future, 
> > inter-operatability will be key issue. So it's important to make VDI 
> > protocol open and standard. 
> > We submitted two drafts (problem statement and survey, pls. refer to below 
> > links for details) to IETF-80 (http://www.ietf.org/meeting/80/index.html) 
> > and will hold a bar BoF during IETF-80 in Prage. So we are sending this 
> > mail: 1) request for your comments or suggestions for the two draft 
> > documents; 2) if you're interested in the VDI standardization, please you 
> > attend the upcoming IETF meeting. 
> > http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-wang-clouds-vdi-problem-statement/
> > http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ma-clouds-vdi-survey/
> > 
> > Thank you and looking forward to meet you in Prague.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Lyon
> > 
> 
> Lyon,
> 
>  Thanks very much for doing this survey. Just a note about point 2 in the conclusion of
>  the draft-ma-clouds-vdi-survey:  spice server isn't shared by vms. There is
>  one per vm. Also, in spice it isn't installed in the guest, but running on the
>  host. You might have been confused with the in guest agent that provides
>  client mouse, display resize, wan guest optimization and copy paste.
> 

Additionally you mention spice uses GLZ, spice uses actually multiple compression
schemes, including a multi color version of QUIC, GLZ like you mention, LZ and JPEG.

> Alon
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