[Spice-devel] What is the difference between spice and Xspice ?

[Alon Levy]

On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 10:54:35PM +0800, suyi wang wrote:
> Hi:
> 
>    Is there a command like qemu to startup a vm with spice ?
> 
> qemu xp.img -m 124 -spice ....

man qemu | grep -A3 -- -spice
       -spice option[,option[,...]]
           Enable the spice remote desktop protocol. Valid options are

           port=<nr>
...

To start spice without password protection in clear text:

 qemu -spice port=5900,disable-ticketing -vga qxl

/me notices qemu man page is missing example invocations.

> 
> So, if startup with Xspice ,  what would be the command like ?

$ Xspice --help | head -3
usage: Xspice [Xspice and Xorg options intermixed]

X and Spice server. example usage: Xspice --port 5900
--disable-ticketing :1.0


> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 2012/3/25 Alon Levy <alevy at redhat.com>
> 
> > On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 11:05:38AM +0800, suyi wang wrote:
> > > HI all:
> > >     What is the difference between spice and Xspice ? Is Xspice for
> > Windows
> > > Server only ?
> > >
> >
> > spice is the name of the protocol, Xspice is an X server that is also a
> > spice server.
> >
> > Xspice uses spice-server
> > Xspice allows spice-clients to connect to it.
> >
> > Xspice is the second user of spice-server, the first and primary is
> > qemu.
> >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > --
> > > Yours.
> > > suyi
> >
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> Yours.
> suyi