[Spice-devel] SPICE for text mode serial consoles ?

[i iordanov]

Hi Daniel,

Would the spiceterm project from Proxmox be of interest?

https://git.proxmox.com/?p=spiceterm.git;a=blob_plain;f=spiceterm.pod;hb=master

Cheers!
iordan


On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com>wrote:

> A long time back OpenStack had a remote text console service, in parallel
> with its VNC console console. This was later deleted because it was using
> insecure code from an unmaintained 3rd party project. Fairly frequently
> though people raise the issue of re-enabling remote text (ie serial)
> console access, as a low bandwidth alternative to a fully graphical
> console.
>
> I was wondering, given that SPICE is designed with many independant
> data channels, would it make sense to provide a way to add new channel
> type that could transport a text mode console ? eg SPICE would act as
> the backend for QEMU serial ports, as well as the graphical display.
> Clients could have a choice of opening the graphics related channels,
> the serial port channels, or both.
>
> NB I'm not saying I've time to work on this at all - I was just wondering
> if this was conceptually a reasonable feature to propose.
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
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