[Spice-devel] Alternate platform exploration

[Alon Levy]

On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 09:04:21AM -0500, Jeremy White wrote:
> >> Did I miss some implication of the libvirt connection?  Can an alternate
> >> client solution be leveraged instead?
> > 
> > Not sure what you mean about alternate client solution - alternate to
> > the above? concerning libvirt, it doesn't change anything. Libvirt deals
> > with the vm control, setup, migration, upgrade of qemu without affecting
> > the guest, but it doesn't provide the spice client, the, well, spice
> > client does that :)
> 
> Well, I don't know; I was wondering if in my ignorance I had missed a
> solution path that would be obvious to someone else.  Looks like I
> didn't :-/.
> 
> > 
> > I think a html5 client (meaning Javascript / HTML5) would be the best
> > approach. Adding websocket support is the easy part, I think it should
> > be done directly in the server but a proxy also makes sense later. The
> > harder part is writing the client. But such a client would have a number
> > of deficiencies compared to a native client:
> >  * less compression - probably not possible to implement QUIC / ZLIB or
> >    any other compression that isn't provided by the DOM. (this is from
> >    the noVNC experience).
> >  * no usb remoting (also no smartcard, but that's less of an issue).
> 
> Yes, and in general, I think an html5 client would have to have a
> somewhat reduced feature set.
> 
> > 
> > And the main problem:
> >  * no one stepped up to write one.
> 
> That's always the rub, isn't it :-/.
> 
> I've been toying with the idea of trying to put together a proof of
> concept html5 client.  That's likely to be folly, but I did want to be
> sure no one else was working on it.

I'd really like to have one but I know I personally can't justify
working on it, if you started doing that it would be great and I'd be
glad to help from the sidelines.

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jeremy
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