[Spice-devel] multiple users and xspice

[Rob Verduijn]

I'll work on better formulating my questions.

For now I will have a look into html5spice.

See if I can get it to work.
Rob

2014-12-23 14:37 GMT+01:00 Jeremy White <jwhite at codeweavers.com>:

> On 12/23/2014 07:20 AM, Rob Verduijn wrote:
>
>> Like I said in my first email, I already got Xspice to play along with
>> xdmcp.
>> And when connecting to the server using virt-viewer I get a nice desktop.
>>
>> Now what I do not have is more than 1 concurrent user.
>> Also preventing the second user from hijacking the session from the first
>> user is an issue.
>> Explaining that user one has session :1 and user two has session :2 is an
>> administration nightmare.
>>
>> It all has to work automagically.
>>
> I'm sorry, but you asked if XSpice supported multiple users; that answer
> is yes.  If the question is can it do it automagically, then that answer is
> no.
>
> I think the code required to make that happen is fairly modest, and I was
> trying to point you to the start I'd made on itin the hope it would help.
>
> I'll continue that, briefly, here, and then leave you to it.
>
> You will need to auto compute a free X display number.  The client doesn't
> care about X display; what's scarce for clients is Spice port numbers.
>
> The clients shouldn't have to know their port number; you should be able
> to create a uri that embeds the port number, and that should be automagic.
> That does tend to suggest a web server based launch, not xinetd, though.
>  You can also feed the spice_auto.html page in the spice-html5 client and
> get a magic web session (that was my plan).
>
> One final tool that may help you - the remote viewer client has a
> --spice-controller option that allows you to start the spice client with a
> variety of parameters.  An xinetd solution could be rolled using that
> facility, but that would be a fair bit of work. (The spice controler option
> involves connecting to a socket and sending a fairly specific set of
> protocol messages to it, one of which could be 'open a spice client with
> these parameters').
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeremy
>
>
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