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

[Christophe de Dinechin]

> On 29 Jan 2018, at 14:17, Victor Toso <victortoso at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> 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?

Weren’t we discussing about where it’s hosted just yesterday in Brno?
Or is that now completely solved and stable? I was under the impression
that we were still looking for the optimal hosting solution.

Thanks
Christophe

> 
>> 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