[Spice-devel] Xspice, Using...

[Jeremy White]

On 02/05/2013 06:36 AM, Tomas Jamrisko wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> This is a bug ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=907852 ). Some applications when run first make Xspice unresponsive (loop infinitely, take as much of CPU as it can...). It should work with icewm. Not so much with metacity. 

um, I think that may be misleading.

> 
> I am trying to use Xpice as a replacement for VNC or NX.. I regularly use spice in a VM and find it excellent. But I don't want to run a VM just for my local computer. 
> 
> 
> I tried this http://dummdida.blogspot.ca/2012/02/give-spice-try-or-smooth-vnc.html 
> 
> 
> But All I get is a black screen on Fedora 18 both client and server. 

That is not a bug I have seen lately, and if it really exists, I'd be
very interested in learning more about it.

My suspicion is that the packaged versions of xf86-video-qxl are lagging
badly; the last tagged release is from last March, and it has improved
considerably since then.

So I would recommend building an xf86-video-qxl driver from git and
retesting.

Cheers,

Jeremy