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

[Snir Sheriber]

Hi

True, the process is still as toso mentioned.

Currently we are running for some time now in the new instance
(which is not openshift) seems stable so far.

Snir.

On 01/29/2018 04:07 PM, Victor Toso wrote:
> 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