[Spice-devel] Announcing spice 0.9.1 & spice-protocol 0.9.0

[Alon Levy]

On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 01:30:41PM -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 11:52 +0300, Alon Levy wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 09:59:14AM +0200, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 03:44:58PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > > > * Multi-client support, disabled by default (experimental!) set the
> > > >   environment variable SPICE_DEBUG_ALLOW_MC before starting qemu to enable
> > > 
> > > Do we have documentation explaining what multiclient is, and how to use it?
> > > I think there's a page on the wiki, but I'm not 100% sure about this :-/
> > > 
> > 
> > Updated http://spice-space.org/page/Features/MultipleClients
> <snip>
> Thank you for implementing this feature.  Are there any plans to add
> multi-user or multi-tenant (trying to find some new label) where each
> connection has their own channels, that is they have their own desktop
> rather than sharing the same desktop? - John
> 

You mean you want to have a single vm with a single spice server, but two clients,
one talking to windows session A and another to windows session B, or in linux
case one talking to X server A and another to X server B?

I'd say that requires quite a lot of changes:
 For windows: update driver to work with terminal services? no idea really how to
 implement this in windows, but definitely a driver issue. Currently there is just
 a single working PDev in windows.

 For linux: probably easier. Would have to have different X servers, so actually easier
 then having multiple cards for a single X server. But otoh how do you add devices on the
 fly? not sure linux would handle this right. Never tried.

So in summary I don't have any plans for this, and it doesn't seem to be too easy either.

Alon