[Spice-devel] Spice for commercial use

[bruce bushby]

not sure how many people have actually tried this....but I ran a little
test the other day.

Laptop (fedora 18)
Server (fedora 18) ...running a windows7 guest.

*All qemu, libvirt and spice packages were Fedora defaults....as in what
you find in the standard repo.


I took my laptop to my brothers house (5 miles away) and used "spicec" to
connect to my windows7 guest...."shift+F11" to full screen and launched a
720p HD movie via VLC (running in the windows guest)......  if you've not
seen it before it'll take your breath away  :)))))   ....it's not 100%
perfect....but it's at least 98% perfect.

...yes we both have virgin media broadband (UK) .... BUT ping response
times are in the 20ms

After that test, I've been working day and night designing a spice thin
client (hardware) because it's obvious that the way the "majority" of
people use a PC's is about to change.

Bruce



On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Marian Krcmarik <mkrcmari at redhat.com> wrote:

>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "John A. Sullivan III" <jsullivan at opensourcedevel.com>
> > To: spice-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
> > Sent: Thursday, March 7, 2013 2:35:10 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Spice-devel] Spice for commercial use
> >
> > On Thu, 2013-03-07 at 01:10 -0800,
> > spice-devel-request at lists.freedesktop.org wrote:
> > > Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 06:24:34 -0800
> > > From: Tom Holmes <tomholmes at live.com>
> > > To: <spice-devel at lists.freedesktop.org>
> > > Subject: [Spice-devel] Spice for commercial use
> > > Message-ID: <BLU170-W120A85A49F95B3126C2236EC5E40 at phx.gbl>
> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> > >
> > >
> > > Hello!
> > > Can Spice be used for commercial use, if so are there licensing
> > > fees
> > > that are applied?  Would you say Spice is comparable to RDP, ICA
> > > and
> > > PCOIP?  Can Spice be used to access a Windows Desktop?
> > > Thank you so much!Tom
> > >
> > I have not used PCoIP but, from what I understand, SPICE would be
> > most
> > similar to that.  Fundamentally, all four are providing the same
> > primary
> > functionality - remote desktops.  In my experience, RDP and ICA are a
> The goal is the same but concept how to achieve it is (afaik) completely
> different. PCoIP is a UDP stream of rendered pixels on host (with some
> support to offload image encoding to special hardware cards) while Spice is
> a TCP stream of graphics commands to be rendered on the client.
> > little more responsive over a WAN/Internet connection right now but
> > do
> > not handle multimedia as well as SPICE.  I mean RDP6 and above - RDP5
> > was terrible over a WAN.  I believe, as video becomes more important
> > and
> > as SPICE improves its video capability, perhaps with an inter-frame
> > compression algorithm instead of MJPEG, it will become our remote
> > desktop protocol of choice :) - John
> >
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