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

[Victor Toso]

Hi,

On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 02:56:19PM +0100, Christophe de Dinechin wrote:
> > On 29 Jan 2018, at 14:17, Victor Toso <victortoso at redhat.com> wrote:
> > 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.

Ah, hosting... But the subject was about changing the
spice-space.org itself, that got me confused.

We have static pages with some static generator that works
although we can also improve design, content, etc. We just need a
place to display those html files and AFAIR, teuf was looking for
a new home to the spice-space.. not sure the status of that.

> 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
> 
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