[Spice-devel] Fwd: a question about Xspice

[cynthia]

At 2014-10-23 17:13:31, "Uri Lublin" <uril at redhat.com> wrote:
>On 10/22/2014 06:29 PM, Cynthia wrote:
>> At 2014-10-22 19:26:20, "Uri Lublin" <uril at redhat.com> wrote:
>> >> From: cynthia <cynthia_115 at 163.com>
>> >> HI All,
>> >>
>> >>    I am trying to build Xspice which is included in guest QXL driver, but one question confuses me a lot.
>> >>    As the Xspice's description in Readme, i get that Xspice is a X server and spice server in one, running in guest os,
>> >>    but our team has developed a set of windows virtual desktop in which the spiceserver is deployed in HOST os linked with QEMU,
>> >>    and i think that is coordinated with the spice protocol.,
>> >>    So, could anyone explain it for me if spiceserver is deployed in guest os or host os? I will be very very appreciated~
>> >>
>> >Hi Cynthia,
>> >
>> >Xspice was developed with the (Linux) server/host in mind, not the guest.
>> >Running on a server, it enable remote access to a physical machine using
>> >Spice.
>> >
>> >Of course, it can instead run on the guest, but that was not its purpose.
>> >We already had a solution for the guest that uses Spice, as you've
>> >mentioned.
>> >
>> Dear Uri,
>> Thank you so so much for your mail , it's very important.
>> I started to learn Xspice because Our team are trying to find a 
>> solution to Linux virtual desktop.
>> Today I created a Fedora guest OS and found there are already 
>> pre-installed vdagent and qxl driver in it.
>> My spice client can connect to the server and logged into the guest, 
>> the most important part is the qxl dirver in guest is working,
>> I think the Linux virtual desktop works, but i didn't do any Xspice 
>> thing, i use the host used to hosting Windows guest.
>> In my opinion spice client will be able to access to physical machine 
>> when an spice server package is installed, but what do we use Xspice for?
>> and what will setting environment variables for X server in the host 
>> and enabling video, mouse and keyboard driver(libspiceqxl_drv.so) help 
>> for?
>> It's a little long mail, many questions in my head. Anyway ,thank you 
>> Uri again:)
>> B R
>> Cynthia
>
>Hi
>
>If you are using a virtual machine, Linux/Windows, you do not need to 
>use Xspice. Just use QXL device/driver.
>People who want to use Spice to remote display a (non VM) Linux server, 
>can use Xspice.
>Xspice options can be set using environment variables.
>Hope that helps,

>Uri.




Dear Uri,


Thank you so much for your reply, it's very helpful,as I have been 
struggling with Xspice for three weeks.
Now I can focus on the components in guest.
Thank you:)
B R
Cynthia
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