[Spice-devel] Working seamless mode

[Roland Baudin]

Hi,

perhaps this is not the right place for this request? Could you give me 
some place where I can post this request?

Thanks a lot,
RB


Le 31/12/2020 à 10:42, Roland Baudin a écrit :
> Hi there,
>
> for my own purpose, I have ported the seamless mode patches written by 
> Jakub Janků, Ondřej Holý and Lukáš Venhoda (see 
> https://www.spinics.net/lists/spice-devel/msg30177.html) to Ubuntu 20.04.
>
> I have also hacked the virt-viewer gtk app to allow easily entering 
> and leaving seamless mode. This is a very convenient way to work with 
> the VM in Ubuntu. It's probably not difficult to do the same with 
> virt-manager but alas I'm not a Python programmer.
>
> So, I have a set of packages for Ubuntu 20.04 and installation of 
> these packages is very simple. In the Windows VM, it is also required 
> to replace the vdagent and vdservice programs by the patched ones. 
> This is not difficult, but it's a manual process for now.
>
> Everything works well (but there are probably issues I didn't see, 
> possibly with multiple screens) and I think this could be a major 
> improvement to the kvm/qemu user experience in Linux.
>
> However, I don't have time (and skills) to maintain these packages and 
> patches. I have two other open source projects (Xfe and TexMaths) and 
> a full time job...
>
> So, I'm asking here if someone is interestedto get this work and 
> maintain it? I could give you my packages (the patches are in the 
> source packages) and a little explanation to start.
>
> I'd be happy if the community could build something useful upon this 
> work.
>
> If someone is interested, how can I send the files? Mail attachment to 
> this list? Google drive?
>
> Thanks for andy answer and have a nice day,
>
> RB
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