[Spice-devel] Spice just for a remote desktop to a virtual machine?

[Snir Sheriber]

On 01/29/2018 12:10 PM, Christophe de Dinechin wrote:
>
>> On 29 Jan 2018, at 11:09, Christophe de Dinechin <christophe at dinechin.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On 26 Jan 2018, at 23:11, Marc Dunivan <m971668 at me.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Is SPICE for the use case of providing a remote virtual desktop only to a virtual machine’s graphical/desktop environment?  Additionally, the virtual machine host must be a Linux OS, correct...SPICE server only runs on Linux?
>>>
>>> SPICE can’t be used to obtain a remote desktop from a Fedora GNOME PC to a Windows 10 PC, or visa versa?
>> At the moment, that’s correct. But a question asked at DevConf reminded me
>> that with the shift to Wayland, SPICE may have an opportunity to provide
>> a better Wayland remote desktop experience. Any volunteer for that?
>>
>> By the way, if that happens, we might want to consider this a fourth possible
>> location for the spice streaming agent and attached plugins, the first three
>> being the current “in-guest”, the proposed “in spice server”, and Marc André’s
>> suggestion to put that in host outside of QEMU process.
> Also relevant to this discussion: work to use pipewire for remoting wayland:
> https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/wayland-gnome-remote-desktop

Cool!

That reminds me there is also an experimental spice backend for Weston 
(Wayland compositor). iirc it worked nice but still needed some more love.
(maybe it worth a link on spice-spice.org? ;) )

https://github.com/ein-shved/compositor-spice


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