[Spice-devel] Using a SPICe guest from console

[Enrico Mioso]

Hello SPICE community! :)

First of all, I would like to say thank to you for your work in SPICE: I find it to be a great idea.

I am writing to you to ask for help, since I am trying to use SPICE in a little strange way.
I would like, for confort reasons, to be able to use SPICE-gtk to connect to a session where i am emulating a Windows guest, but directly from the console and withoutemploying a full-fledged X server.
I am a blind user, thus I am using a screen reader inside the VM. I may just bring up an X server and somehow try to use spice-gtk inside of it, but I would like to know if there was a different way to do it, avoiding that.
I tried to look around, I was thinking I could do this somehow with xvfb, but it seems it won't allow me to easily send keypresses, if not via xdotool. I would need to interact with the Windows guest as naturally as possible, even using strange combinations involving keypresses like
capslock+n
(keeping capslock pressed + n)
to interact with the screen reader. Is it possible?
In the past I used an USB keyboard, directly redirecting keypresses to the Windows machine, but I would like very much to be able to use SPICE, enjoying the big advantages.
And I would like to be able to seamslessly interact with both the Guest and the real OS, as it is possible within a graphical environment. Using an X server would, in my opinion, slow me down on that sense.
Maybe I am able to achieve that with a special X server config, that would stop the X server from interacting with the graphical hardware but still intercept keypresses?

Thank you very very much, and sorry for the disturbance.
I also sent a mail to you Hans, sorry for the duplicate sending.

Enrico