[Spice-devel] Control Linux desktop remotey?

[Alon Levy]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 11:31:55AM -0800, George Pyle wrote:
>    Thanks for the reply. I was kind of hoping there was a spice equivalent to
>    the vncserver or some kind of configuration or spice that would work.
>    Sounds like that would be a future.

Xspice _is_ the equivalent of vncserver. vncserver is standalone, so is
Xspice, i.e. they are both X servers. What doesn't exist is remoting of
your existing desktop - if that's what you want it is indeed in the future.

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>    From: Marc-Andr߽ן Lureau <mlureau at redhat.com>
>    To: Andrew Cathrow <acathrow at redhat.com>
>    Cc: spice-devel at lists.freedesktop.org; George Pyle <laxgoober at yahoo.com>
>    Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 11:05 AM
>    Subject: Re: [Spice-devel] Control Linux desktop remotey?
> 
>    Hi
> 
>    ----- Mensaje original -----
>    >
>    > > Is spice only useful for VDI? Can I control a Linux server or
>    > > desktop
>    > > remotely using a Spice client on Windows or is it best to use VNC
>    > > or
>    > > some other remote service/protocol. All of the examples I've read
>    > > require QEMU and describe setting up a guest OS using QEMU. Did I
>    > > miss something or is it just not possible?
>    >
>    > Spice will work for servers or desktops.
>    > If you don't install a driver in the guest it will perform in a
>    > similar fashion to vnc.
> 
>    George, if you want to use Spice as a remote desktop protocol only for
>    Linux, you may be interested by XSpice, the X server using Spice. This
>    way, your desktop/server doesn't need to run over QEMU.
> 
>    See
>    http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-qxl/tree/README.xspice
>    . You won't get all of the nice features however, mostly only
>    display+inputs for now.
> 
>    Afaik, there is no way to export your current desktop (linux or windows)
>    with Spice. That would be neat to have.

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