[Spice-devel] are there any new spice protocol document?

[Marc-André Lureau]

Hi

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> A while ago I've started to work on a similar proxy for Spice as part of the
> Openstack Nova project. However, It should fine to use it without openstack.
> 
> So far, there are two working versions, one for userspace and another is a
> transparent proxy.
> However, we are now focusing on the transparent one, as the userspace one was
> slow..
> 
> The idea is to setup forwarding rules (iptables) between the client and the
> spice
> port on a proxy host. When the client will request a spice console, a new
> port will be opened
> on the proxy host, for which forwarding rules will be setup to the
> destination.
> The proxy will respond with a port number to which the native client should
> connect to.
> It will also monitor the rules and will remove those which are no longer
> connected.
> 
> At the moment we have a working code, but it's far from being in a good
> shape. (As it was a side project for us so far)
> There are 2 people involved and each has some part of the code locally.
> 
> In the coming days we should be able to consolidate everything in a repo
> below, however, as far this served
> us just for hacking.
> https://github.com/vladikr/spicetcpproxy
> 
> We are now in a process of writing a proper blueprint for Nova. Thoughts are
> more than welcome :)

How does it compare to:
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/spice-http-proxy

To me it sounds simpler, less limited and more secure to have a single proxy port than having to fiddle with forwarding rules.

cheers