[Spice-devel] Multi Console

[David Jaša]

On Thu, 2017-03-02 at 15:01 +0100, Pavel Grunt wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-03-01 at 10:21 +0100, Christian Rilke wrote:
> > Hi,
> >  
> > first think i have to say is THANK YOU! Spice is the best think
> > happened to the qmeu community since we need graphical consoles.
> >  
> > I just have a short question about multiple console feature. I read
> > that is still experimental? Is this still true? I found out that i
> > need SPICE_DEBUG_ALLOW_MC=1 to get it working.
> > Are there any more concrete plants to improve this feature? We use
> > this daily. The most time we have no trouble but sometimes its
> > buggy. Specially if some change the size of he spice window.
> 
> It is problematic - if one changes the size, the change is
> transferred
> to other users. Sometimes there can be a race - for instance when one
> uses virt-manager as a client - it has a fixed size, so it keeps
> sending a size request matching its size (and possibly overwriting
> request from other clients).
> 
> A solution may be to accept size request only from one client (or
> agent messages in general)

Yeah. It would be good to have receive-only consoles that would allow
e.g. distributed presentations as it is possible with VNC, they should
be also easier to polish than full-featured multiple clients.

David

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> 
> If you find some bugs, please report them.
> 
> Thanks,
> Pavel
> 
> >  
> > Cheers,
> > Chris
> > 
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