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

Victor Toso victortoso at redhat.com
Mon Jan 29 13:17:03 UTC 2018


Hi,

On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 01:48:17PM +0100, Christophe de Dinechin wrote:
> > On 29 Jan 2018, at 12:01, Snir Sheriber <ssheribe at redhat.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 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
> 
> Yes. Also worth adding to the SPICE top-level project I started
> working on. Will do.
> 
> I’m a bit fuzzy, was there any decision regarding
> spice-space.org? 

Decision about what?

> I’d like to be able to update things like the mac build
> instructions or, when it’s in, instructions on how to use the
> flight recorder data to tune performance.

AFAIR, you can submit changes to spice-space-pages [0] and some
VM is going to regenerate the spice-space.org page.

[0] https://gitlab.com/spice/spice-space-pages

We use Pelican [1] and if you want to generate the website in
your end, you can with spice-space repo [2]

[1] http://docs.getpelican.com/en/stable/
[2] https://gitlab.com/spice/spice-space

Cheers,
        toso
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 833 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/spice-devel/attachments/20180129/89e02d7b/attachment.sig>


More information about the Spice-devel mailing list