[Spice-devel] SPICE client for unmanaged X

[David Jaša]

Hi Brad,

the support for seamless multi-head is in spice for quite some time. In
the guest, qxl driver needs to be used, spice-vdagent must be running
(agent consists of system-wide spice-vdagentd daemon and per-session
spice-vdagent process, all should be up'n'running automatically after
installation and maybe logout). No further X configuration is necessary.

Then connect with:
(remote|virt)-viewer --full-screen=auto-conf <...>
or after connection, enable extra monitors in View -> Displays.

You may have troubles if you use too old systems (Debian or Ubuntu more
than two years old, RHEL/CentOS gets spice rebases regularly). If you
have problems with recent distros, please attach debug logs:

* virt-viewer: launch it in console with --spice-debug parameter

* spice-vdagent: kill the per-session instance and run it in console:
    spice-vdagent -x -d -d

HTH,

David


On Ne, 2014-04-27 at 20:09 +0800, Brad Campbell wrote:
> G'day all,
> 
> I'm after some advice on a spice client I could use on unmanaged X.
> 
> I have a client machine with 3 heads. What I would like is to be able to 
> do is access a spice server and have the three heads appear on my client 
> like they are native. As an example, this is the way I do it with it on 
> a single head machine and vnc.
> 
> xinit /usr/bin/xtightvncviewer -bgr -fullscreen -passwd 
> $HOME/.vnc/passwd xx.vm.home -- :2 -layout Secondary
> 
> So this starts a new X server, and sparks up a vncviewer instance that 
> has full use of the monitor. Ideally I'd like to do the same with 
> multi-head machines.
> 
> At the moment I'm running Xmonad on Debian as a client, this allows me 
> to auto-map the 3 spice windows to the 3 monitors, but I have issues 
> with the client hotkeys clashing with the server hotkeys for window 
> management. If I could remove the window-manager and have a multi-head 
> spice client just use all three heads fully I'd eliminate this issue.
> 
> I currently use spice-gtk as a client. Is there a better client (I don't 
> use USB pass through or audio) that might allow me to do what I want to 
> do? Has anyone got any pointers to examples?
> 
> Regards,
> Brad
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