Hi Marius, On 01/27/2018 at 17:03 Marius Bakke writes:
> George myglc2 Clemmer <[email protected]> writes: > >> It appears that there are 3 ways to reach a QEMU VM desktop on headless >> GuixSD servers: X11, spice, and maybe VNC. Is that right? >> >> Can anyone comment on which has the best performance. > > Spice was designed to be a better protocol than VNC for accessing > virtual machine consoles. I haven't done any benchmarks though. > > It requires a rather involved QEMU command line[0]: > > [qemu] -spice addr=127.0.0.1,port=3001,disable-ticketing -soundhw hda \ > -device virtio-serial -chardev > spicevmc,id=vdagent,debug=0,name=vdagent \ > -device virtserialport,chardev=vdagent,name=com.redhat.spice.0 \ > > Then you can use virt-viewer or "spicy" from spice-gtk along with SSH > forwarding to access 127.0.0.1:3001 on the remote machine. Setting up > encryption or authentication requires a few more arguments if you want > to expose this on a network-facing interface directly. > > [0] https://www.spice-space.org/spice-user-manual.html Many thanks for this ... dropped your lines into my qemu call and it worked right out of the box \\WOW// ... once I realized the virt-viewer client is actually called remote-viewer ;-) - George
