[Spice-devel] Support for Win10

[Victor Toso]

Hi,

On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 08:39:42AM -0400, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Lucas,
> > 
> > On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 11:20:31AM -0300, Lucas Sanches Fantacuci wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm looking for how to install and execute a QEMU VM with SPICE
> > > SERVER while the host's  machine O.S. is a Windows 10.
> > >
> > > Does it work?
> > 
> > Although I've never tested, the builds provided by Stefan Weil
> > [0] seem to be mingw based and AFAIK we don't have a
> > mingw-spice-server...
> > 
> > [0] https://www.qemu.org/download/#windows
> > 
> > This is the first time this question pops up (that I see) so I
> > don't expect it to work.
> > 
> 
> I won't be surprised if the effort to make it works would be
> small, at the end we provide a library that deals with encoding
> and network, there are something Linux specific like the statistics
> using shm_open and family, or dmabuf for Virgl, but as these features
> are not available on Windows would be easy to disable (actually
> you could replace shm_open with CreateFileMapping, but actually
> that part of code is not compiled by default so no problems).
> 
> This does not mean we are going to support that configuration!

I've created an issue for it so the idea does not die in the
mailing list.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/spice/issues/21

Cheers,
        toso
> 
> > > While I was looking at download page, there's just binaries for
> > > linux environment.
> > 
> > Yes, the spice server library is linux only. The client has mingw
> > builds and msi installer (with remote-viewer) so you can run
> > windows client to connect to either windows/linux guests. But
> > hosts has always been linux to my knowledge.
> > 
> > > Lucas Sanches Fantacuci
> > 
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> > e.g: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/spice-devel/2018-June/044035.html
> > 
> > Cheers,
> >         toso
> > 
> 
> Frediano
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